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Originally Posted by starrigger
I agree with your statement about rights. And I'm not qualified to offer a legal opinion. But I have a hard time seeing audio rights encompassing a machine reading a text file aloud in a synthesized voice. To me, audio rights means the right to create or license an audio performance for recording and replay.
I suppose this is another one that will be argued or perhaps negotiated at length.
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Voice of sanity
Audio rights and TTS are vastly different things. Actually even audio rights and people reading aloud from a book whether to someone, to themselves or to a large audience are different things.
Where you get into recording and disseminating said readings, it gets trickier, but even there there is room to argue about rights and such.
Honestly, I am astounded that publishers/writers can be so obtuse to put it nicely - see how vilified RIAA is.
The Amazon issue is in itself not that important since I expect any legal attempt will be thrown out of court with possible prejudice, and I do not think obtuseness extends that far, while Kindle boycott threats are self-defeating especially for small presses that do not have an easy chain distribution channel - to fight with Amazon seems suicide to me for any but the largest of the large media corporations
But to see this automatic reflex of "hey I may make an extra penny there and anyway why should the *** get something for me for free", notwithstanding that the reaction may cost you a pound in many other ways is still mind-boggling for me, especially in the era of vilification of big media and angst among publishers....