>Is there any legal restriction on submitting recordings made from

>reading news articles from online news sites?

Yes.  They are protected under Copyright, unless otherwise stated. 

Recordings of such text would be considered a Derivative Work, and would be covered under the original author's Copyright.

>It's a simple and quick way to obtain contemporary material in every

>language.

Project Gutenberg is probably your best bet, however, the works it contains are not "contemporary". 

Ken

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