Once, Amazon has been criticized by publishers and authors of books for violation of the rules of use of printed content, the manufacturer of the Kindle 2 has decided to update the device software in such a way that the function of the voice reproduction of text was available only in the event that it authorizes the copyright holder.
Previously the system could activate a voice reading the Kindle 2 user for any text in your device yourself, but publishers have stated that the company Amazon thus violates their rights because royalties are paid only for the text content, but not for his audiokopiyu. Weighing the legal validity of the authors’ claims, the company decided to meet them halfway.
In the Amazon’s say that in itself voice reading function perfectly legal – it does not make copies, do not make any derivatives of the text and does not affect the content itself as an object of copyright.
“Nevertheless, we remain firmly convinced that the new feature will be extremely useful for many readers and publishers will allow its use at work with their content. law obliges us to modify the system so that owners can decide what books and chapters you want to play the voice and what is not, “- said in the Amazon.
We remind that in the digital library has Amazon More than 240 000 books in digital format.
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