Author's Guild Says Kindle's Text-To-Speech Software Illegal

Posted by CmdrTaco on Wednesday February 11, 2009 @03:15AM from the you-gotta-be-kidding-me dept.

Mike writes "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 for a moment that text-to-speech doesn't copy an existing work. And forget the odd notion that the artificial enunciation of plain text is equivalent to a person's nuanced and emotive reading. The Guild's claim is that even to read out loud is a production akin to an illegal copy, or a public performance."

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Im that close | | to ... by Lazypete · 2009-02-11 03:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

I know this is irrelevant and thus I assume im going to get some offtopic or ... whatever I need to get this off my chest... Im that close | | to wish that humanity get whiped out on all count of extreme greed.. on all count of usage of intelligence to regress.. on all count of head in the butt... Please change your ways people, isn't humanity over this ?? I mean can't we trive on the goal of being better and enlightened. Greed ultimately will result in you being buried with more wealth..