Amazon Kindle text to speech a copyright violation?
The Authors Guild is upset with the new Kindle, claiming that its text to speech feature violates copyright. Several comments have been made about the dubiousness of the claim.
See the New York Times op-ed by the president of the Authors Guild called The Kindle Swindle.
See reaction to it by Boing Boing, Techdirt, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Amazon will enable the feature, but authors will be able to decide whether there works could be read aloud or not. I think this is a good compromise with which all, amazon as also the publishers and writers, can live.
Comment by Flüge Bangkok — March 17, 2009 @ 4:05 am