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Is this copyright infringement? I know HN generally side-eyes IP law, but this seems like a pretty straightforward violation. Neuromancer certainly isn't out of
by Analemma_ 10y ago
Is this copyright infringement? I know HN generally side-eyes IP law, but this seems like a pretty straightforward violation. Neuromancer certainly isn't out of copyright.
EDIT: Listening to this kinda makes one appreciate the virtues of hiring professional voice actors to do audiobooks. Don't get me wrong, I worship William Gibson, but he is... not suited to this task.
- corndoge 10y agoDoes William Gibson not own the copyright on his own work?
- teilo 10y agoIf it is on archive.org, rest assured that any copyright issues have already been addressed. [[ EDIT: I'm totally wrong about that. Thank you for the corrections. ]] And yeah, authors rarely make good voice actors. I am reminded how terrible Wind in the Keyhole was since Stephen King decided to record it himself as compared to all the other books in the series that were voiced by the greats: Frank Muller and George Guidal.
- TillE 10y agoThere's a surprising amount of stuff on archive.org which is flagrantly in violation of copyright. Basically all of this, for example: https://archive.org/details/pc_cdrom https://archive.org/details/pc_cdrom They used to be so scrupulous about the live music archive, always obtaining explicit permission from each artist. Dunno when that all changed.
- voltagex_ 10y agoNope, this is not true. Anyone can upload to archive.org and there's only one person reviewing flagged content AFAICT.
- Bombthecat 10y agoOne... Person?..
- voltagex_ 10y agoIt's a guess. Someone called Jeff Kaplan seems to be the only person responding to posts on https://archive.org/iathreads/forums.php https://archive.org/iathreads/forums.php about stuff needing to be taken down. And don't even get me started on the terrorism videos...
- krrrh 10y agoThere is definitely not a rigorous process in place to prevent copyrighted material being uploaded to archive.org, often with obviously inaccurate metadata and political commentary [1]. [1] See this 2013 upload for instance: https://archive.org/details/TheLivesOfOthers-EastGermanZionistPigsTrueStory https://archive.org/details/TheLivesOfOthers-EastGermanZioni...
- voltagex_ 10y agoUploaded in Cinepack format. Wow. I've flagged it - unfortunately there's no "copyrighted content" flag.
- Cyphase 10y agoFor everyone wondering about the copyright: "© 1994 Time Warner Audiobooks" and, William Gibson isn't the one who uploaded this (unless MollyMillions is him, which I doubt).