February 2009
6 posts
Author’s Guild calls Kindle 2’s text-to-speech... →
Authors Guild basically says “screw you” to the blind.
“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.”
Biggs’s quote is pretty priceless: “You can react to real issues, Mr. Aiken, like wholesale book piracy in China, or you can keep kicking the...
