How much legal force does any of this have? After all:
1. This is not a legal opinion, it's a press release. 2. It's just one corporation's policy, not taken in response to any court action. How can it shape law? (Certainly it can and very well may shape practice; can't argue with you there.) 3. Accepting that it's got not force of law, Amazon have nevertheless clearly and unambiguously established that they think they've got a perfect right to make any damn book they sell readable on Kindle. So they don't actually agree with the Guild at all, except on a narrow, pragmatistic rationalizaton. Given 3 and given Amazon's history, this will almost certainly not be the last shot. Look for it to get incrementally harder for a non-big-name author to be on Kindle if you don't release the text-to-speech rights. (Only incrementally, though -- wouldn't want to expose themselves to charges of extortion...) On 2009-03-01, delancey <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Thereby creating a technical standard which will be forced onto other > software. Soon content controllers will claim that all speech-to-text > software must have DRM controls of a similar kind. > > cd > > > > -- eric scoles ([email protected]) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
