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Originally Posted by HarryT
Do blind people have a "right" to use written material? Obviously it's nice if they can do, but it's not a "right", is it?
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Actually here in the US there is a law called American with Disabilities Act which gives quite a few rights to blind people among others, and while its precise legal reach is unclear, it is the basis of the one DMCA exception related to Text to Speech and shifting drm format
But the general issue is that if publishers and the author's guild have to go to technicalities - and it's unclear to me if they even have a case since as various people pointed out, having TTS is not essentially different from reading a book aloud - puts them on a very dangerous path when they like the music industry depend essentially on people's goodwill.
I do not care that much about music in general, so the fact that the big records have been behaving so badly is for me "another bunch of stupid, dumb, evil ***, let them get what they have coming", but I will be saddened if I see the publishers following them in "dumb, stupid, evil **" territory