[free-sklyarov] The Anti-DMCA Index -- Libraries, Ebooks and the DMCA

[Christopher R. Maden]

At 10:00 13-08-2001, Jon O . wrote:
>27. Maximum penalty for reading "Alice in Wonderland" aloud (possible DMCA 
>violation):  5 years jail

In the interest of accuracy: this is the penalty for using the "read aloud" 
feature of the Adobe Acrobat eBook Reader.  The legal restriction was (is?) 
very poorly worded, but what it *means*, according to both Adobe and its 
opponents, is that the "read aloud" text-to-speech feature is disabled.  It 
does not, and never did, mean that a human can not read the text of the 
work aloud in the ordinarily-permitted ways (i.e., not for paid public 
performance in the case of copyrighted work).

-crism
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