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Originally Posted by rhadin
The Author's Guild has never questioned the right of the disabled to use Text-toSpeech technology nor has the Guild asked that it be taken away from the disabled. It is use by the non-disabled that is in question. More importantly, what is really being questioned is Amazon's assertion that when you give it ebook rights you also are giving it audio rights. This does not appear in Amazon's contracts with publishers and authors and is simply an assertion by Amazon. The Guild says ebook rights do not include audio rights and without audio rights text-to-speech violates the author's copyright.
Again, the dispute has nothing to do with the rights of or access by the disabled.
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I agree with what you say. This audio vs TTS issue shows just how messed up copyright law is and just how stupid and short-sighted the Guild is. One would think that the TTS capability in the Kindle 2 would more than offset the loss of audio sales of a limited audio book library, by the increased sales of the entire Amazon library now accessible by people with disabilities.
Amazon is doing them, The Guild, a favor.. and they are too dumb to realize it.