Thread: One for the pro-copyright people to think about
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Old 03-15-2012, 10:45 AM   #7
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Originally Posted by QuantumIguana View Post
No, only with great difficulty and extensive twisting could reading to children a library be construed as a "performance".
Include a recording of a reading on YouTube and it can get thrown in with all the "pirating" that the publishers object to. It's an unauthorized live audiobook! If you want to hear a book read out loud, you're supposed to buy the mp3!

... yeah, it's a stretch. But considering that we had recording companies attempt to sue cellphone companies for the "public performance" of ringtones, I don't think it's at all unlikely to be filed. (That one got resoundingly stomped. However, that one *also* didn't involve public use of the entire song.)

I can only hope it gets a judge who's savvy enough to say "WTF is this? Hell no, you cannot prevent readings at libraries! What kind of monsters ARE your executives, anyway? Why are you even making children's books if you don't want them read to children?"
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