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It wasn't publishers, it was the Author's Guild, the union representing voice talent for audiobooks. https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/technology

• galangalalgol 4y ago
  I like Neil Gaiman's quote in there, and I agree if you record someone reading a book you can copyright that, but that copyright has no bearing on the copyright status of the recording of a another person or machine reading the book. If I own the content, I can format shift, that is actually in law in the US. Audio is a format. I think what actually happened is that they convinced Amazon that there was more money in audiobooks than they thought, and it wasn't worth using it as a feature to sell kindles. Now Amazon knows how much money is in audiobooks and they aren't sharing. Are they surprised? Copilot and chatgpt are going to replace me, so I say this with all humility, don't protect jobs from AI. They are saving us effort we can spend on other things. This is just industrialization taken another step.
  • kadoban 4y ago
    > don't protect jobs from AI. They are saving us effort we can spend on other things. This is just industrialization taken another step. This is true on a long time scale. On a medium-to-short time scale it will lead to the biggest concentration of wealth we've ever seen.