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I don't think you can pick a book from your library, narrate it, and then start selling the audiobook without permission from the copyright holders.
by dannyw 7y ago
I don't think you can pick a book from your library, narrate it, and then start selling the audiobook without permission from the copyright holders.
- chrisco255 7y agoAudible books are licensed though. The author is still compensated for an audio version of a book. If I bought a movie and had a smart TV that performed AI based closed captioning would that be some sort of copyright violation?
- dillonmckay 7y agoYes. Captions have copyright.
- chrisco255 7y agoThey're not reselling it nor redistributing it. The captions are derived from the AI and presented to the user. It may need some court precedent for this sort of thing, but I believe this would fall under "Fair Use". Fair Use Within copyright law there is a doctrine of law known as fair use. Although fair use does not actually give permission to make copies of a work or otherwise use a work without consent, the doctrine provides a defense to copyright infringement. The factors considered when applying the doctrine of fair use include: the purpose and character of the use, the nature of the copyrighted work, the amount of the work used, and the effect the use has upon the market for the copyrighted work.
- v4dok 7y agoBut if I bought a book, read it, and then recited from memory as good as I could (which is obviously not 1:1, but a vague idea of the story), adding things from other books where I didn't really remember what was happening. I think, I've seen thousands of movies/books promoted as original content, but made this way
- dannyw 7y agoWhat you describe would be a derivative work, and you still won't be able to sell it without a license.
- dagw 7y agoIt all boils down to a very complex function of exactly how close to the original you are and how good your lawyers are. The better your lawyers, the closer to the original you can go.