Several large book publishers are suing Amazon

Seven book publishers, including giant players like Penguin Random House and HarperCollins, have filed a lawsuit against Amazon's audiobook company Audible. In a statement received by The Verge, Audible noted that its Captions feature "is not and was never intended to be a book." The lawsuit could have much bigger implications for intellectual property that was created or transformed by machine learning. Over the last month, the U.S. Authors Guild has been fighting more or less the same fight, alleging that its agreements with Audible do not allow the audiobook company the right to create text versions of audio books. READ MORE: Major book publishers sue Amazon's Audible over new speech-to-text feature [The Verge]