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If I buy the audio book does it make sense that I am allowed if I want to write on a piece of paper what I hear? How about type it? How about using some voice

If I buy the audio book does it make sense that I am allowed if I want to write on a piece of paper what I hear? How about type it? How about using some voice-to-text software that I have?

codegladiator 7y ago
Yes, you do it for yourself. Thats fair use. Now you begin to sell it, thats an issue. And to think amazon is "surprised and disappointed by this action" does not seem the case. They are definitely trying to make themselves look charitable because of "educational purpose".
- john_minsk 7y ago
  So if they create a separate free app and inside it will allow to load books from Audible and transcribe them - you won't have any issue with it?
  - codegladiator 7y ago
    > My contract is crystal clear that the only rights conveyed to Audible are for voice recording and playback. The rights to reproduce text in any way are specifically withheld The original creator has issues with it. And if I was the content creator, I probably would have.
    - john_minsk 7y ago
      The comment, under which we have this discussion, gives it very specific context: where will you draw the line in the range of tools to transform audio for fair use. Why would you consider pen+pencil and free app to transcribe audio to text different in terms of copyright infringement? Does Audible charge you more to use this feature? What I see here is an attempt to dictate ways in which I can use book I already purchased - i.e. limit my rights. What I also see: a bunch of companies that are trying to squeeze more juice from the market, which they are not even willing to serve in the first place, because they, being experts in the book market, couldn't figure out that market needs this feature, while a bunch of IT geeks, did.
      - john_minsk 7y ago
        Will add just one last point on humane business practices: if publisher sold me the book so well that I decided to buy one of the most expensive forms of its distribution - he should feel lucky and fuck off.
prepend 7y ago
The funny bit is that it’s been illegal to read books to your kids under similar reasoning from publishers. It just was never enforced because how would that be possible. But now with these ML/NN/AI tech approaches products are coming out at scale. If I write an open source package and give it away for free and it takes text and produces audio performances from it, that’s fair use, I think. Amazon commercializing is a different thing, but unless the publishers are going to sue parents from using text to speech and speech to text utilities on stuff they bought we’re going to get into an interesting legal area.

If I buy the audio book does it make sense that I am allowed if I want to write on a piece of paper what I hear? How about type it? How about using some voice-to-text software that I have?

codegladiator 7y ago

Yes, you do it for yourself. Thats fair use. Now you begin to sell it, thats an issue. And to think amazon is "surprised and disappointed by this action" does not seem the case. They are definitely trying to make themselves look charitable because of "educational purpose".

john_minsk 7y ago
So if they create a separate free app and inside it will allow to load books from Audible and transcribe them - you won't have any issue with it?
- codegladiator 7y ago
  > My contract is crystal clear that the only rights conveyed to Audible are for voice recording and playback. The rights to reproduce text in any way are specifically withheld The original creator has issues with it. And if I was the content creator, I probably would have.
  - john_minsk 7y ago
    The comment, under which we have this discussion, gives it very specific context: where will you draw the line in the range of tools to transform audio for fair use. Why would you consider pen+pencil and free app to transcribe audio to text different in terms of copyright infringement? Does Audible charge you more to use this feature? What I see here is an attempt to dictate ways in which I can use book I already purchased - i.e. limit my rights. What I also see: a bunch of companies that are trying to squeeze more juice from the market, which they are not even willing to serve in the first place, because they, being experts in the book market, couldn't figure out that market needs this feature, while a bunch of IT geeks, did.
    - john_minsk 7y ago
      Will add just one last point on humane business practices: if publisher sold me the book so well that I decided to buy one of the most expensive forms of its distribution - he should feel lucky and fuck off.

prepend 7y ago

The funny bit is that it’s been illegal to read books to your kids under similar reasoning from publishers. It just was never enforced because how would that be possible. But now with these ML/NN/AI tech approaches products are coming out at scale. If I write an open source package and give it away for free and it takes text and produces audio performances from it, that’s fair use, I think. Amazon commercializing is a different thing, but unless the publishers are going to sue parents from using text to speech and speech to text utilities on stuff they bought we’re going to get into an interesting legal area.