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Going to be pretty hard for a company that frequently touts the accuracy of its natural language processing to specify how this is materially different from tossing in a copy of the ebook for free (though as a consumer I'd like that) https://t.co/cToyZUwZ6Y
— Lucas Matney (@lucasmtny) August 23, 2019
Audible has released a statement regarding the copyright lawsuit the Big Five publishers (and Chronicle + Scholastic) field today in New York.
— Nick Statt (@nickstatt) August 23, 2019
Says it disagrees that its Captions feature violate copyright. https://t.co/fNPwycNmBk pic.twitter.com/aVUJat2YIj
Today's most utterly unsurprising legal suit.https://t.co/S4bGqRsS4u
— John Scalzi (@scalzi) August 23, 2019
The Big 5 are suing Audible/Amazon over that sneaky caption program on audiobooks that nobody was consulted about. https://t.co/0HqrTdNpf3
— David Gaughran ✍ (@DavidGaughran) August 23, 2019
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://t.co/WcxMpe1AUC
— ＠c̲hris̲epps̲tein (@chriseppstein) August 23, 2019
GOOD. And I'm happy to see that Macmillan is involved in the filing as well!https://t.co/ipYlmF7I42
— Alyssa Palombo (@AlyssInWnderlnd) August 23, 2019
Amazon is making written text from audio recordings made from print text—ie, “books.” ? https://t.co/5GjGwFwYb3
— Karen Swallow Prior (@KSPrior) August 23, 2019
Yep, let's gohttps://t.co/3d18t2SnXR
— PRINT RUN (@printrunpodcast) August 23, 2019
Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature https://t.co/c0d5J02vLJ pic.twitter.com/yU1s9wXteL
— The Verge (@verge) August 23, 2019
Awooouu (wolf sound)https://t.co/KCDdaUmD5o
— Erik Hane (@erikhane) August 23, 2019
Major book publishers sue Amazon’s Audible over new speech-to-text feature https://t.co/mbgTxgJ3uT via @verge
— Joanna Penn (@thecreativepenn) August 23, 2019