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Originally Posted by Moejoe
Is the Guild anything but a joke now? Especially after the text-to-speech kerfuflle.
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I don't see how they can be.
Especially as not one of them posting in the long and contentious threads about here ever mentioned that the reason there has to be a different contract for a audio book is that there is generally a voice actor reading the work, who is also payed royalties. the royalties have to be rendered in such a way that everyone gets paid.
With text to speech, the author of the TTS only gets royalties on each copy of the program sold to the hardware manufacturer, not each file run through the program.
The whole manufactured issue of less royalties was pushed here while attempting to gloss over the lack of a voice actor.
By people who claimed to understand the law involved.