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Old 17-02-2009, 11:16 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Open Source Audio Books - Who's With ME ?

I love audio books, but I hate the price you have to pay. I'm wondering would this work, or as some have said it would get hit by the copyright police?

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I'd imagine it's illegal.

It is property of the owner/publisher wether it's read by someone else or not is surely irrelevant.
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Old 17-02-2009, 11:27 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I'd imagine it's illegal.

It is property of the owner/publisher wether it's read by someone else or not is surely irrelevant.
They won't win the Kindle Text To Speech case - I really don't see how me reading this outloud to people is any different ...
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They won't win the Kindle Text To Speech case - I really don't see how me reading this outloud to people is any different ...
Because the words in the book are Intellectual Property
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Old 17-02-2009, 11:31 AM   #5 (permalink)
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You need to put an add in loot or whatever looking for New authors say offer £50 in a competition... then when you have something decent (poetry would do) send them a letter asking for permission to include there work in an anthology (include returnable authors release permission form!!!!) then when you have the signed forms back record away DO NOT FORGET you MUST offer to sell the author a gold cd with their work on for £39.95 + p&p
get some gold coloured discs and way hey this time next year we could all be MILLIONAIRES

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Old 17-02-2009, 11:32 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Re: Open Source Audio Books - Who's With ME ?

if you buy the book and read it out loud and record it for later playback, that might be ok.

at a stretch, if someone else recorded themselves reading it, and you downloaded it but also owned the book, that might be ok (bit grey though)

if you download someone else reading a book but you don't own the original book, thats not ok.
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Old 17-02-2009, 11:33 AM   #7 (permalink)
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I am pretty sure it would fall foul of copyright.

The copyright holders 'exclusive rights' normally extend to all forms of distribution of the copyrighted work. That is, though printed first as a book, copyright would still extend to electronic and other forms of distribution of the work.

The only excemption I believe is for chariable organisations who provide audio copies for the blind.
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I am pretty sure it would fall foul of copyright.

The copyright holders 'exclusive rights' normally extend to all forms of distribution of the copyrighted work. That is, though printed first as a book, copyright would still extend to electronic and other forms of distribution of the work.

The only excemption I believe is for chariable organisations who provide audio copies for the blind.
Suddenly everything has gone dark!!!

If say you make a recording for blind folk.. is it legal to take monies from say Guiness or Andrex for advertising on said recording???

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I (as I'm sure many) grew up listening to Jackinory ... so was that illegal? What about those trips to the library where someone read to us school kids.

What's the difference between listening to someone live reading from a book that you don't own compared with the recording of someone live reading from a book you don't own ?

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Old 17-02-2009, 12:10 PM   #10 (permalink)
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I (as I'm sure many) grew up listening to Jackinory ... so was that illegal?
No, as I am sure the BBC would have paid any copyright fees...

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What about those trips to the library where someone read to us school kids.

What's the difference between listening to someone live reading from a book that you don't own compared with the recording of someone live reading from a book you don't own ?
Well that is a different case. The library reading would be about performance rights as no copy is taken and distributed, the audio book is about distribution rights.
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Would be like bands making cover albums and not paying any royalties etc to the owners...


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Re: Open Source Audio Books - Who's With ME ?

It's a great idea - but as others have suggested, redistributing copyrighted works is a definite no-no. However, there are plenty of works that are out of copyright which might work - just think of all those classics. I believe there are already some Dickens available on iTunes for free.

My 5 yr old son also loves audiobooks, and is happy to spend an hour listening to them in his bedroom while he plays. He also loves the Star Wars graphic novels (Who doesn't) So I've started recording myself reading them so that he can enjoy them while I'm not there to read them for him - even the most devoted parent needs a break sometimes!
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Old 17-02-2009, 12:48 PM   #13 (permalink)
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+1 for all that liquid said above..
Years ago when Ned Jr was a tiddler he used to love audiobooks when driving on a long journey "The Man" being the favorite amongst he and cousins
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I have 'A Briefer History of Time' by Stephen Hawking as an audio book, they really missed a trick by not using Microsoft Sam to just read the whole book out, woulda saved them time, money and have it sounding like the book was being read by the author!

It's a lot easier to take in as an audio book than the actual hard copy too.


While I like the idea of OP sadly it's not going to happen, except on older books like mentioned a couple posts up.
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I love audio books, but I hate the price you have to pay.
Join Audible and you can either have one book a month for £7.99 or two a month for £14.99. With regards to your real question I think that it would be illegal.
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