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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
It doesn't appear that LibriVox publishes any kind of guidelines on how their recordings may be used? Just because the books are PD and the recordings are made available for free doesn't mean that they can't have some say in what is done with the recordings (such as repackaging and selling them).
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I guess it's the same legally as people using the Project Gutenberg texts and repackaging them. But it seems different with recordings because of the involvement of narrators. It may be legal to sell the recordings but it's unethical.
I wonder if the old-time radio recordings that Audible sells are repackaged from the free versions at the Internet Archive.
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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.
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Yes. And Audible/Amazon have a number of these books as Whispersync pairs too, which gives the recording more exposure and credibility.