Spotify Modifies Terms for Audiobook Rightsholders, Changes May Put Authors in Legal Peril With Narrators
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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12029451

Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create “derivative works” from audiobooks

They frame it as though it’s for user content, more likely it’s to train AI, but in fact it gives them the right to do almost anything they want - up to (but not including) stealing the content outright.

    • ricecake@sh.itjust.works
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      7 months ago

      I’m not sure I would take the analysis of their competition at face value.

      It might be for shitty reasons, but it’s also a pretty boilerplate clause that’s been in online content websites TOS for years.

      A post title phrased to make you angry, and a blog post geared to make you angry at the posters commercial competition has too many layers of manipulation to it to make me take it at face value.