oh look. im so glad the $43 million dollar secret project the fans funded will now spawn AI generated garbage while still not being available on audible. isnt that just the greatest? /s
oh look. im so glad the $43 million dollar secret project the fans funded will now spawn AI generated garbage while still not being available on audible. isnt that just the greatest? /s
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
Spotify just changed their TOS, giving them unprecedented rights to create "derivative works" from audiobooks
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.
Reprehensible. Shows how this company really doesn't care for the people who actually bring these stories to life.
I'm not sure I would take the analysis of their competition at face value.
It might be for shitty reasons, but it's also a pretty boilerplate clause that's been in online content websites TOS for years.
A post title phrased to make you angry, and a blog post geared to make you angry at the posters commercial competition has too many layers of manipulation to it to make me take it at face value.
Selling an ebook on a marketplace should not give any rights of the contents of the ebook to the marketplace.
The same should be for other niche marketplaces.
Changing the TOS like this is an unfair business practice. Existing published works should have the option of receiving advanced notice of these changes and a long grace period to deny the change and pull their work from the platform.
Yes I meant to comment further, but my social media timer-blocker thing was about to go off. I'm just as upset at this practice of including, just, the most pernicious clauses imaginable in a contract as "boilerplate" where actually enforcing it would make you front page news, but we're supposed to trust that it's just for their protection.