Legal Commentary

Protesting the Authors Guild

By Lawrence Lessig

On Tuesday, April 7, the National Federation of the Blind will protest in front of the Authors Guild headquarters, at 31 East 32nd Street, New York City. The protest criticizes the Authors Guild's bullying of Amazon to get them to shut of the Text-to-Speech functionality on the Kindle 2. The Authors Guild demands that blind people wanting this added and enabling technology must either submit to a burdensome special registration system and prove their disabilities or pay extra for the text-to-speech version.

Read more about the protest here.

The Authors Guild -- once again, working hard to make the work of all but the wealthiest authors less valuable.

Full post as published by Lessig Blog on April 07, 2009 (boomark / email).