New Amazon Kindle: Hey, those audio rights are ours!
An experimental feature on the popular electronic book will allow a little voice to auto-read the text of the book for you, but the Author’s Guild says that infringes on its members’ rights to the audio adaptations of their works. [WSJ, Slashdot]
[…] to read text aloud via a computer synthesized voice. It seems the Author’s Guild has taken exception [via Overlawyered] to this claiming that it violates their members’ rights to an audiobook […]
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Oh goodie!! The battle of the Author’s Guild lawyers verses ADA lawyers!
Everyone needs to stop reading to their kids at night, too.
[…] to read text aloud via a computer synthesized voice. It seems the Author’s Guild has taken exception [via Overlawyered] to this claiming that it violates their members’ rights to an audiobook […]
the Kindle’s main selling point for me is it’s text-to-specch feature