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Originally Posted by issybird

I think it's reprehensible for Audible to profit from these sales. I also feel for those narrators whose professional status is compromised by juxtaposition with their amateur output.

It's kinda shady, but the narrators did agree to it when they did recording for LibriVox. I get where they're coming from and as a customer I might feel duped if I bought something like this and could have gotten the same thing free, but it appears the "publisher" is following LibriVox's own guidelines. Do the narrator's have a right to try and get the publishers editions pulled when the recordings are being used in accordance with the "rules"? I'm kind of surprised that Audible doesn't have a policy thought that LibriVox recordings aren't acceptable, just because of the issues with the number of PD recordings already out there from various pubs and the questionable quality of some LibriVox material.



https://librivox.org/pages/public-domain/

LibriVox records only texts that are in the public domain (in the USA – see below for why), and all our recordings are public domain (definitely in the USA, and maybe in your country as well, see below). This means anyone can use all our recordings however they wish (even to sell them).

Practicalities
The practical implications of our copyright policies are:

• if you record for LibriVox, all your recordings will be donated to the public domain
• you may do whatever you like with our recordings – you don’t need permission
• in general, we can only record texts published before 1923
• we cannot record texts that are still under copyright in the USA, but public domain in another country
• all our recordings are public domain in the USA, but not necessarily in other countries
• if you are outside the USA, we recommend that you check the copyright status of the work in your country before downloading our recording of it

What Can Other People Do with LibriVox Recordings

LibriVox recordings are in the public domain, which means people can do anything they like with them. Mostly this just means people can listen to them for free. But it also means they can: sell them (for instance on ebay), broadcast them, put them in commercials, play them at political rallies, chop them up, remix them, make music recordings of them. The recordings are free, and there is no need to credit LibriVox, although of course we much prefer if you do credit us (with a link to our site).