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From: "Peter Kirk" <peterkirk AT qaya.org>
> But do copyright laws apply to an audio version of an out of copyright text?
>
> -- Peter Kirk
> peter AT qaya.org (personal)
> peterkirk AT qaya.org (work)
>http://www.qaya.org/
The short answer is, "Yes".
What the copyright laws affect is not the text, but the recording. The
recording is considered a new copyrightable performance. When I worked in
multimedia, that was an important issue.
Karl W. Randolph.
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