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Renting or Buying Audio Books on Tape
Anywhere you look, there is usually a story regarding copyright infringement. Many of the cases involve downloading music from an illegal share ware site or downloading movies from a similar site. In fact a recent judicial case regarding audio books on tape has found its way into court but you might be surprised at the outcome of that particular case.
Copyright infringement cases are not new. People want to safeguard their hard work and be paid for anyone using a piece of said work. The copyright cases did help with artists suing over illegal downloads but unfortunately when the lawyers stepped into court they did not consider audio books on tape or for that matter any form of audio book.
After that ruling there were questions regarding whether audio books on tape and audio books CD fell under this same legislation since technically the book was intellectual property. Could a recording of a book be rented or downloaded without the author or publishing company's permission? The terminology of this issue related to what is termed "right of first sale". The courts later determined that the laws governing movies and music's copyright legalities did not apply to audio books. But the question remains whether or not this is fair and equitable to the authors.
When an author writes a piece, be it for a magazine, newspaper or in a book, it is his or her intellectual property. Once the piece has been published, and in this case, recorded onto a medium for listening then it can be reproduced and rented out. Eventually the permission factor will have to be sought out for audio books on tape, or for that matter any recording of a book, in order to be rented and copied but first the exact letters of the law will have to be changed.