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thebookpile ([personal profile] thebookpile) wrote2009-02-11 02:36 pm

Authors Guild: Reading out loud is a violation of copyright law

Amazon's new Kindle 2 can read out loud. The Authors Guild isn't impressed, and claims that this violates copyright law. They say that this creates "an unlawful derivative work."

Time for some new lawyers, guys (hint: copyright only exists for expressions that are fixed in a physical medium; sound waves certainly don't count).


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