digital rights

People wants to use magazine photos on its iPad app for free, claiming the app is merely a product extension, not new content that must be additionally paid for. The photo agencies disagree, and they're threatening to pull their photos.

One intriguing feature of Amazon's new Kindle 2, which was unveiled recently, is text-to-speech. The digital reading device is capable of reading, in a variety of synthetic voices, any text shown on the display. This has sparked a controversy in the publishing community because audiobooks have...