Thread: New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir
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Old 02-12-2009, 04:44 PM   #56
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Originally Posted by starrigger View Post
The Authors Guild statement on the question is now online.
If authors want to contractually limit Amazon from reading aloud their ebooks, that sounds ok to me. However, the following struck me as strange:
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A Wall Street Journal article quoted a portion of an interview with Authors Guild executive director Paul Aiken regarding the Kindle 2. The remarks have been interpreted by some as suggesting that the Guild believes that private out-loud reading is protected by copyright. It isn't, unless the reading is being done by a machine. And even out-loud reading by a machine is fine, of course, if it's from an authorized audio copy.
Take the example of a print book. Is the guild really saying that hand transcription of the text for personal use is legal but scanning and OCRing it "by machine" for personal use is protected by copyright? Both seem to me to be entirely legal in the US. How is this different in the ebook case? Would it be legal to read out loud a paper book "by machine" for personal use?
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