Top publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement(apnews.com)
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Top publishers sue Audible for copyright infringement
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I don’t understand why publishers are against Audible Captions. That feature makes audiobooks less pirate-able, and it also won’t lead to more pirating of ebooks, since it’s better to share a cracked ePub rather than ill-formatted captions. The only revenue loss I can see is from customers who would otherwise buy both the Kindle and the Audible version, but that must be a small fraction.
My guess is that they just want to be paid more for them.
(i.e. They sold the rights to sell the audiobook alone; if audible wants to also include a text version of the book, they want more money).
(i.e. They sold the rights to sell the audiobook alone; if audible wants to also include a text version of the book, they want more money).
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They're not against it. They're against licensing it for free, and what permitting media-shifting surprises might do to damage all their licensing agreements.
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Well, technically it's a derivative work, they have every right to sue.
If the translation is performed on device then Audible would not be liable, considering non-infringing use (see: VCR).
And I suppose YouTube is infringing on copyrighted videos when it adds machine-translated CCs, right?
Modern copyright is indistinguishable from rent-seeking.