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> It's a difference if you do it for your personal notes, or if you then distribute them at scale and make money from it. I think that's my main argument - thi
by deogeo 7y ago
> It's a difference if you do it for your personal notes, or if you then distribute them at scale and make money from it.
I think that's my main argument - this text-to-speech is the same as doing it for personal notes, and that if this is made illegal, then a huge number of other traditionally allowed activities become illegal.
That it happens on someone else's server is irrelevant: 1) It's the same as hiring someone to take notes on a book you own. 2) There's precedent where someone making a recording on your behalf is legally the same as you doing it yourself. 3) If all else fails, the transcription can be done locally.
- SolaceQuantum 7y ago"I think that's my main argument - this text-to-speech is the same as doing it for personal notes," I don't know if this is actually true? Because this isn't suing individual audiobook holders, it's suing the company that is choosing to sell copyrighted-text-in-speech-to-text as a service.
- deogeo 7y agoWell, it's selling a speech-to-text service, that the user applies to speech they own a license to. Why should the legal interpretation differ, just because of where the conversion happens? It could be done locally, or remotely, or locally but charge the user per-word translated. Looks like an implementation detail to me (and again, I think there's precedent backing me up in this view, but I can't find it, sorry).
- SolaceQuantum 7y ago"Looks like an implementation detail to me (and again, I think there's precedent backing me up in this view, but I can't find it, sorry)." Yes, implemention details tend to be important when it comes to copyright and fair use.
- Ajedi32 7y agoSo now speech-to-text is illegal if the system allows itself to be fed copyrighted works as input?
- SolaceQuantum 7y agoNo, the service appears to exist only on the platform with copyrighted works?