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Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks (storyfair.net)
submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Maybe they just want to include clips of the audio book in user’s yearly review thing.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

That's plausible and I'm a little rusty on my IP here but I would call that a fair use. Derivative works use existing work in a new way, where the added creativity is sufficient to make the new work itself copyrightable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Fair use doesn't exist in all countries though.