Agreed, and thanks for the feedback. My initial (and possibly very naive) assumptions are:
1) If readers are permitted to TTS RSS feeds then human recordings "should" also be legal. (Not that I actually expect the laws to be consistent or make sense.)
2) This would be one of the first things I looked in to if I pursue this idea.
3) "If I want TTS I can do it myself." This is certainly true, but the options I am aware of do not provide a seamless interface. For example, would you want to do it yourself while driving in traffic?