>>996484>what's the legality of reading aloud books?Is the book in the public domain or available under a permissible license (such as Creative Commons-BY)?
If yes, totally legal.
Project Gutember has loads of those:
>>https://www.gutenberg.org/And librivox has a load of audiobooks made from the source material in such books:
>>https://librivox.org/Is the book still under copyright protection (i.e. the author is alive or 50~70 years - depending on the jurisdiction -haven't passed since his or her death)? The answer is no, it's not legal.
You'd be violating 6 of the 8 minimum rights of the author granted by the Berne copyright convetion, of which pretty much the entire civilized world is part of.
>>996547No, not really. Not anymore at least, now that the audiobook market is blowing up thanks to Amazon and Audible.
I've seen a actual boomer (as in, actual post-WWII generation) that had less than 200 subs have his youtube account taken down because Penguin Random House DMCA'd his account over his read-along of Dune.
