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Originally Posted by starrigger
But I have a hard time seeing audio rights encompassing a machine reading a text file aloud in a synthesized voice.
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So if C3PO were to read your novels at a packed stadium where the robot charged a $5 entry fee to hear his/her machine synthesized voice read
Sunborn without your permission and without paying you a royalty fee, you would think that wouldn't violate your copyright and would be OK?
Do I understand correctly that the position being taken by those who think Amazon is within its rights is that as long as it is a machine voice rather than a live being it is OK? No matter how good a voice it is? (Think Hal in
2001.)
If so, then perhaps the way to resolve matters for the consumer is to have Amazon or someone else record books using mechanical/robotic voices to read the text and then distribute them free over the Internet to anyone interested. After all, if Amazon's system doesn't violate copyright, this shouldn't either. Do you think JK Rowling would agree?