The brouhaha over the new Kindle’s text-to-speech function possibly violating copyright has really caught fire. The issue hit the papers as well as the blogosphere. The Wall Street Journal carried the sotry with New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir.
Several fellow accessibility blogs have picked up the issue. The Talking Books Librarian asks “Kindle 2 text to speech: is it a copyright violation or help for those with disabilities?“. Mac-Accessibility call for an email campaign in Author’s Guild Opposes TTS for reading Electronic Materials.
The geek and sci-fi blogs are burning up on the issue as well. Wired reports on the Copyright Fight Brewing Over Amazon’s Kindle 2. Geek News Central brings up: The Kindle, Copyright, and Neil Gaiman. Speaking of sci-fi author, Neil Gaiman, he has has a Quick argument summary on his blog.
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