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Article: National Federation of the Blind Responds to Authors Guild Statement on the Amazon Kindle 2.
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- Biotech Week
- Article date:
- February 25, 2009
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The National Federation of the Blind, the largest organization of blind people in the United States, today responded to a statement put out by the Authors Guild advising its members to consider negotiating contracts prohibiting e-books to be read aloud by the new Amazon Kindle 2, which incorporates text-to-speech technology. The Authors Guild argues that the reading of a book out loud by a machine is a copyright infringement unless the copyright holder has specifically granted permission for the book to be read aloud (see also National Federation of the Blind).
Dr. Marc Maurer, President of the National Federation of the Blind, said: "The National Federation of ...