2019-08-25
As a hearing impaired audiobook user, I find this baffling. The rights to the audio content should include the actual words of the book: written or aural. It's BS that the rights are separable in the first place as demonstrated by the new technology. https://www.theverge.com/...
Reuters
Seven top US publishers sue Audible, aiming to block the planned rollout of Captions, a new feature that shows text on screen as a book is narrated
ie, “books.” 🙄 https://www.theverge.com/... Lucas Matney / @lucasmtny : Going to be pretty hard for a company that frequently touts the accuracy of its natural language processing ...
2019-08-24
As a hearing impaired audiobook user, I find this baffling. The rights to the audio content should include the actual words of the book: written or aural. It's BS that the rights are separable in the first place as demonstrated by the new technology. https://www.theverge.com/...
Reuters
Seven top US publishers sue Audible, aiming to block the planned rollout of Captions, a new feature that shows text on screen as a book is narrated
(Reuters) - Amazon.com Inc's (AMZN.O) Audible was sued by some of the top U.S. publishers for copyright infringement on Friday …