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Originally Posted by Nate the great
I'm surprised. I thought Amazon had a solid position, both legal and contractual.
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I think it's safe to say that they did
not have a solid position. Does anyone really think they pulled back on a major marketing coup in order to make rights holders feel "more comfortable"?
I think I just saw a pig fly by, outside my window.
I have to admit, I've pretty much come around to the Guild's position on this--which I initially opposed--not on general copyright grounds, but because of the likely violation of huge numbers of individual publishing contracts, which grant or withhold carefully defined rights. I think Amazon finally realized that they should have talked to people
first and found out what they could or could not do without encroaching on contractual rights.
That said, I hope they find a way to work it out satisfactorily, and soon--because I think it could help sell ebooks. But that might be difficult, because many publishers of ebooks might not
have the rights themselves.
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But there is an upside. There is an exception to the DMCA that allows for DRM removal of ebooks that have TTS ability disabled. The K2 jeopardized the exception becuase it had TTS for all ebooks. Now that it doesn't, I can legally remove DRM from my ebooks again.
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Cool.