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Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks (storyfair.net)
submitted 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months 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] 10 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (5 children)

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.

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