Legal battle over proposed book captions resolved
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It’s settled: You can’t listen to your book and read it, too.
Attorneys for Amazon.com Inc.’s Audible service told a federal court in New York on Monday that they have resolved their copyright dispute with several publishers over the audio-book company’s plan to allow its listeners to read the book in captions displayed on the screen.
Both parties are asking a federal judge to give them until Jan. 21 to allow the parties to submit signed settlement documents to the court for approval.
In a suit filed in August 2019 by seven publishers, the companies claimed that Audible’s proposed Captions program, which scrolls the words of the book generated through artificial intelligence was “blatant copyright infringement,” according to an article in Publishers Weekly, which accessed the suit.
Audible had argued that the Captions program enhanced the audio experience, and was protected by fair use, according to the article.
