Luigi Rosa

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• markdf commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
  anon@142:Rather it grants to the copyright holder the exclusvie right to create derivative works. The contention by many of us is use of Kindle's TTS software doesn't create a work since there is no fixation. The former is a semantics game: if one has an exclusive right to create, no one else does without permission. The latter is bait-and-switch: swapping the discussion of audio rights to performance rights. There is no fixation when a band performs live or a theater group performs a play (unless recorded)---but if they use someone else's song or play script, they need to have permission...
• arkizzle / Moderator commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
  UPDATE: http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-kindle28-2009feb28,0,133240.story "Amazon lets publishers and writers disable Kindle 2's read-aloud feature" Amazon lets publishers and writers disable Kindle 2's read-aloud feature The Authors Guild objected to device's text-to-speech function, saying Amazon doesn't have the right to essentially turn e-books into audio books. By Alana Semuels February 28, 2009 Publishers and authors now have the power to silence the Kindle 2 e-book reader. Amazon.com Inc. reversed course Friday on the device's controversial text-to-speech feature, which reads digital books aloud in a robotic voice. The company gave rights holders the ability to disable the feature for individual titles. The Kindle 2,...
• arkizzle / Moderator commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
  Oops, I totally didn't mean to post quite as long a quote as that.. doh!...
• markdf commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
  Anon@148: No, I did not say all performances are inherently derivative works---a) you're trying to raise the "I can't read to my children" argument, which is not a derivative RIGHT of anything b) you brought up the no fixation argument (i.e., performance) and c) both are beside the point. Again, your sheet music analogy supports my point rather than yours: when you buy sheet music, part of the cost is the royalty to the composer--just like part of the cost of a book pays the author. It filters back through licensing. You are free to perform (or read) it to...
• markdf commented on Authors´ Guild vs. reality: Kindles and read-aloud
  anon@151: I think I see where we're talking past each other. I am not contending that the CONSUMER is creating the derivative work. I'm contending AMAZON is. I've said this, yes, but when you raised the fixation issue, I was still thinking about Amazon and (i think) you were still talking about the consumer. I would argue that there is a fixation by Amazon--the text. The text is the basis for the produced sounds, just like an audio file on a CD produces the sounds of an audiobook. In effect, the text itself becomes an "audio file" when used in...