Understanding Copyright Law | 
Seven of the biggest names in publishing filed a lawsuit against Audible on Friday, arguing that its recently announced AI-generated captions feature breaks copyright law.
https://gizmodo.com/is-captioning-an-audiobook-illegal-major-publishers-sa-18375...
Uh oh.
Personally I find the whole thing kind of pointless.
Curiouser_and_curiouser Oh dear.... 5y
TheSpineView Sounds like a case of an eye for an eye (so to speak). Gandhi once said all "an eye for an eye does is make everyone blind." 5y
LiterarySloth That would be like going after the text to voice feature on kindle. My dad has a hard time reading after his stroke a few years ago. Following along with ebooks while the kindle reads it out loud helps him. Captioning audiobooks is basically the same thing. 5y
Patchshank The whole thing is just publishers getting greedy, but I don't see how they would be losing any money from it. I mean people will still be buying the audiobook. Do people often buy the audiobook and the physical book? They could lose sales if that happens a lot, but I don't see too many people being able to afford buying 2 of the same book all the time. 5y
shanaqui @Patchshank I don't think it's a matter of losing money, per se. It's about the rights -- it's a primarily legal issue. As I understand it, if you don't take action on that kind of infringement you can lose rights; whether this Audible stuff is a big problem or not will depend on whether it is interpreted as a rights infringement or not... which it could be. 5y
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