Thread: New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir
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Old 02-12-2009, 04:21 PM   #57
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Originally Posted by wallcraft View Post
If authors want to contractually limit Amazon from reading aloud their ebooks, that sounds ok to me. However, the following struck me as strange: 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?
I would say that they appear to be using the same sort of lawyers as the RIAA.
Same reasoning and mentality exhibited throughout. It reminds me very much of the RIAA's attempt to prohibit sales of chip recording players like the RIO entirely.

Same road, same destination.
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