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U.S. Copyright Office okays stripping DRM on some types of ebooks
Update: I may be getting too excited; readers over at Teleread say this was already possible, and today’s announcement just affirmed that it will remain an exemption for the next three years. The Copyright Office is handing out a whole … Continue reading
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Tagged breaking, circumvention, copyright, copyright office, cracked, disabled, dmca, drm, ebooks, exemptions, fair use, kindle, library of congress, loc, loopholes, text to speech, tts
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Sign this petition if you think the Authors Guild should leave the Kindle 2's text-to-speech feature alone
The National Federation of the Blind has joined up with dozens of other organizations to form the Reading Rights Coalition, which is fighting for the right to use the Kindle 2′s text-to-speech function on any text without having to pay … Continue reading
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Tagged Amazon, audiobooks, authors guild, blind, blindness, copyright, Kindle 2, NFB, protests, reading rights, rights, t2s, text to speech, tts
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Prez of Author's Guild makes his anti-Kindle text-to-speech argument in the New York Times
The Authors Guild has published an unconvincing op-ed in the New York Times that presents their argument against the Kindle 2′s “read to me” functionality. Continue reading
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Tagged authors guild, copyright, kindle, Kindle 2, lawsuits, read it now, roy blount, text to speech, tts
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Amazon caves to Authors Guild, allows publishers to disable "Read It Now"
Amazon gives in to the Authors Guild, and will let publishers and authors disable the read-it-now function on books. Continue reading →