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

storyfair.net Spotify Modifies Terms for Audiobook Rightsholders, Changes May Put Authors in Legal Peril With Narrators
StoryFair Audiobooks launches a better, fairer way to to buy audiobooks. On StoryFair, authors now receive the highest royalty anywhere.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/12029451
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.