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Originally Posted by rhadin
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?
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Not what I said at all. I would call that a performance, quite different from an electronic reader converting text to voice for personal use.
That Engadget article referred to above seems to have a good take on it. Legally I expect that this is a gray area. That's why I said right off that the Guild's statement was not without merit. But I still don't agree with it.