> > What's the difference between a computer reading a text and, say, > using a machine to magnify the text?
To come back to my first question, what's the difference between a computer reading a text and a human actor reading a text? One's a separate work and the other isn't? And to Bount's point that computer speech is becoming more human-like. The line will only become more blurred as technology improves. To take if further and farther, if an avatar on SL dramatizes a work of mine, is it a separate work? If someone erects a virtual mountain out of a particularly vivid chunk of my text, sets it on their own SL island and sells tickets to climb it, can I argue that I own the rights? Someone else put their effort and artistry, their inflection, into it. With a computer. The world is changing and we as spec fic writers should be ahead of the crowd in exploring what new technologies and media do the the old lines between print, audio, and everything else. Alicia --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
