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Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks (storyfair.net)

submitted 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) by gedaliyah@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[-] ChairmanMeow@programming.dev 14 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

IIRC this is because Spotify wants to generate translations for these audiobooks in the original voices. At least, that's what I think I remember from a long time ago.

[-] rhebucks-zh@incremental.social 4 points 7 months ago

So why didn't they say "derivative works with content of equal sentence-level, character-level, name, and story-level meaning". I think it's gonna be used for something more than that. They want to update content to fit the woke agenda, and people will frame it as good.

[-] LibreFish@lemmy.world 3 points 7 months ago

Sometimes it's just because the lawyers who wrote TOS grab as much leeway as they can, even if it's just to make a translation.

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