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Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks (storyfair.net)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by gedaliyah to c/technology
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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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[โ€“] [email protected] 42 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah I think they're trying to slip one on us to train AI but we'll see how rightsholders respond.

Are they already doing this for podcasters?

[โ€“] kromem 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, they are creating "derivative works" of podcasts when they translate them into new languages using AI:

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2023-09-25/ai-voice-translation-pilot-lex-fridman-dax-shepard-steven-bartlett/