After all the brouhaha about Kindle 2 and the copyright issues raised by its TTS function, it looks like Amazon has caved.

Check out this story for the latest developments.

You may have read our previous post about Amazon’s Kindle 2–which features TTS, and lots of it: Any document on the Kindle 2 can be read to users via the device’s TSS.

And, as convenient as that may be, the Authors Guild is saying that Kindle 2’s TTS violates copyright law.

According to Paul Aiken, executive director of the Author’s Guild: “They don’t have the right to read a book out loud… That’s an audio right, which is derivative under copyright law.”

Check out the full story here at Fast Company.