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When you buy a book you are buying an implementation of a story. And a company paid for the right to produce the implementations in that form, which is what you
by buro9 7y ago
When you buy a book you are buying an implementation of a story. And a company paid for the right to produce the implementations in that form, which is what you're covering in the purchase.
When you purchased a book it didn't give you ownership to all other implementations of the story.
You still must pay for a recording of a reading, a translated version, the story in a film, and so on.
The right to make implementations is agreed by contract... Licensed... And restricted to the form of an implementation and usually a legal/geographic domain.
If you purchased the right to make implementations in clay tablets, you would not have the inherent right to produce a shadow puppet version too. For that you would need another license from the author (typically via their publisher).
- chii 7y agoinformation is information. If i purchased a video on casset tape, i ought to be allowed to produce a clay-tablet version (at my own expense, and only for my own use).
- robjan 7y agoYour analogy would mean that you would have to transcribe the audiobook for your own personal use. That would probably be fair use but you probably wouldn't want to do that.
- chii 7y agousing a tool to transcribe (for example, a tool provided by amazon) is the same as doing it myself.
- yorwba 7y agoBut is Amazon actually providing the tool, or just its output? Could I use it to transcribe any audiobook I want, even if it isn't available via Audible? Because otherwise it's not you doing it for your personal use, but Amazon redistributing copyrighted content.
- chii 7y agoif amazon is redistributing the text without providing a way to transcribe your own audio as well, then it is definitely a copyright infringement (assuming they didn't also purchase this right from the copyright holders).
- Spivak 7y agoBut that doesn't make any sense. If I want to make a legal backup of a DVD I own but don't own the equipment to do so am I not allowed to take my DVD to a 3rd party and have them create a backup on my behalf?
- javagram 7y agoIn the USA this isn’t allowed. Neither is backing up DVDs in general though. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNetworks,_Inc._v._DVD_Copy_Control_Ass'n,_Inc https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/RealNetworks,_Inc._v._DVD_Co....
- jplayer01 7y ago> i ought to be allowed to produce a clay-tablet version (at my own expense, and only for my own use). What in the world does this have to do with Amazon providing a feature on their audiobook distribution platform, for which certain licenses were acquired to be able to distribute these audiobooks, that automatically creates unlicensed copies? If you want to create a clay-tablet version from your own copy for your own use, go for it. But the moment Amazon decides they're bored with audiobooks and start selling clay-tablet versions on amazon.com without appropriate licensing, that's entirely different.