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3 September 2019CopyrightSaman Javed

Audible stalls ‘Captions’ feature rollout following copyright suit

Amazon’s Audible will not enable its new “Audible Captions” feature for a number of audiobooks, following a copyright infringement complaint by several members of the Association of American Publishers.

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