Top Publishers Sue Audible, Alleging Encroachment On Text Territory
The seven plaintiffs, which include all of the publishing industry's Big Five, say the audiobook company is violating copyrights with a planned feature that would transcribe audiobooks for listeners.
by Colin Dwyer
Aug 23, 2019
2 minutes
Updated at 7:17 p.m. ET
Seven major publishing houses say that Audible, the audiobook company owned by Amazon, is violating copyright law with a planned speech-to-text feature that's set to launch next month. In a lawsuit filed Friday in federal court, the publishers
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