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Originally Posted by anne fleming
What's interesting to me, is this kind of tech was originally developed for the blind - to give disabled people access to written material. Clearly, this isn't the way Amazon is marketing the tool, but I think they could make an argument that their tech is much closer to a translation for the sight-impaired, than it is a dramatization like that intended in an audiobook format. Amazon might argue that using DRM to block this kind of tech might imperil access to the disabled accross all kinds of written reasources.
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There is a specific exemption for disabled access, an exemption no publisher or author I know of disputes or questions. The difference is Amazon's touting this as a feature of the Kindle for nondisabled users and that the Kindle is not a device specifically for the disabled market. All I can say is that if I were still practicing law, I'd love to represent the Author's Guild on this one.