Spotted on Slashdot, Author’s Guild Says Kindle’s Text-To-Speech Software Illegal. “The Author’s Guild claims that the new Kindle’s text-to-speech software is illegal, stating that “They don’t have the right to read a book out loud,” said Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild. “That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.” Forget...
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The Blind Flaneur makes an important point in a recent blog post, Preserving the Future’s Creative Raw Material in the Public Domain. These days, authors and musicians protect their work online using Digital Rights Managment (DRM). DRM, however, almost always makes the content being protected inaccessible to the visually impaired. DRM is not inherently...
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