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: Excess Copyright

Don't Move Your Lips While Reading in Public

By Howard Knopf, Esq.

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Perhaps we need an annual award for the most excessive copyright claim of the year. Surely a contender for 2009 would be the Author's Guild assertion that the new Kindle device from Amazon that reads a book you have bought and paid for out loud via computer synthesized voice infringes copyright by creating a derivative work and a performance in public. We are not talking about the unlicensed

Full post as published by Excess Copyright on February 11, 2009 (boomark / email).

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