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

gedaliyah@lemmy.world to Technology@lemmy.world – 778 points –
Spotify Modifies Terms for Audiobook Rightsholders, Changes May Put Authors in Legal Peril With Narrators
storyfair.net

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.

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Am I missing something? To me this just seems like standard legalese to avoid petty lawsuits. The derivative works clause even give transcription as an example.

The moral objection part seems more strange but maybe it has something to do with playlists or tagging.

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