In a stipulation filed in federal court on August 28, Audible has agreed to exclude works from a group of major publishers from its Captions program until copyright and licensing issues raised in a recent lawsuit are resolved.
"Audible will not enable its ‘Captions' feature for all audiobooks for which Publishers own, or are the exclusive licensee of, the text or audiobook rights (including without limitation Publishers' Works as defined in Paragraph 36 of the Complaint filed in this litigation) until the Court rules on Publishers' Motion for a Preliminary Injunction," the filing states, "or the motion is otherwise disposed of."