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Originally Posted by GJSmith
In truth for some books it requires bending the law a bit. Not sure how those with a legal mind feel about it but there are many books that are not audio books for his age group. When we purchase the ebook it may require stripping the DRM to make it playable. Since it is only for his use I'm sure no one would mind.
Wish there were better voices though we use GhostReader and the voices are good but still sound computerish.
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Seeing as how we don't have the DMCA in Canada, you are within your legal rights to circumvent DRM for intellectual property that you've paid for here. Even in the States, it's a grey area.
Within US (and Canadian) copyright law is a clause called "fair use". If you've purchased, licenses or otherwise gained the rights to the IP then you're covered by this clause. Ripping CDs, converting movies, and circumventing DRM for
personal use are widely agreed upon as being covered by this. Almost every time it's gone to court, the legal system has agreed.
I don't think that circumventing DRM for personal use in order to aid in the education of a child with a reading disability would ever be considered outside of fair use.