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.

  • UNWILLING_PARTICIPANT
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    9 months ago

    Yes I meant to comment further, but my social media timer-blocker thing was about to go off. I’m just as upset at this practice of including, just, the most pernicious clauses imaginable in a contract as “boilerplate” where actually enforcing it would make you front page news, but we’re supposed to trust that it’s just for their protection.