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Copyright and innovation: from the ‘give me a break department’

Posted by Nicholas Gruen on Friday, February 13, 2009

[Jeff Bezos and Amazon Kindle]

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos displays the Kindle 2 e-book reader at an event Monday.

“They don’t have the right to read a book out loud. That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law”

Paul Aiken, executive director of the Authors Guild.



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