Where can I find free audio books on iTunes? If you can suggest any podcasts or even if there are some available from iTunesU that would be great!
Several web sites offer online full-texts of books that are out of copyright, e.g. www.gutenberg.org.
However, aside from the copyright owner, which is almost always the author or their publisher, ANYONE who posts, distributes, or transmits the text of these books online is violating both the U.S. and the International Copyright laws, infringing on Intellectual Property, and can be fined and jailed for it. (In general, anything first published within the last 52 years in the U.S. will still be in copyright. When the law was changed, it became copyright duration matched the rest of the work, i.e. the author’s/copyright owner’s lifetime plus 50 years.)
Writers make a living by creating their work. To read or use it without paying for it, is STEALING, pure and simple.
If the work is valuable enough to read, it must be paid for.
This is especially true of audiobooks since they are "performance" pieces and thus hold newer copyrights.
March 20th, 2010 at 8:56 am
below is a link to a website with a big list of free stuff from itunes, new and old. where the page says "subscribe" or "start now to download"–skip that, it’s not necessary– just scroll down their page and you’ll see the lists and links to free tv shows, songs, audiobooks, etc;
US: http://www.itsfreedownloads.com/
International: http://www.itsfreedownloads.com/international-free-itunes-downloads/
References :
itunes faq- http://usitunes.blogspot.com/
March 20th, 2010 at 9:01 am
Several web sites offer online full-texts of books that are out of copyright, e.g. http://www.gutenberg.org.
However, aside from the copyright owner, which is almost always the author or their publisher, ANYONE who posts, distributes, or transmits the text of these books online is violating both the U.S. and the International Copyright laws, infringing on Intellectual Property, and can be fined and jailed for it. (In general, anything first published within the last 52 years in the U.S. will still be in copyright. When the law was changed, it became copyright duration matched the rest of the work, i.e. the author’s/copyright owner’s lifetime plus 50 years.)
Writers make a living by creating their work. To read or use it without paying for it, is STEALING, pure and simple.
If the work is valuable enough to read, it must be paid for.
This is especially true of audiobooks since they are "performance" pieces and thus hold newer copyrights.
References :