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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 [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] 103 points 9 months ago (16 children)

So, they want to create AI written and narrated audiobooks that use the voices of well known voice actors without paying them for the privilege? How is that supposed to stand in court?

[–] [email protected] 18 points 9 months ago (9 children)

Voices can't be protected by copyright but there may be a legal avenue for someone like Morgan Freeman to sue if a voice is clearly a knock off of his voice AND he can make a case for it damaging his "brand".

I'd be impressed though if AI can write a novel without directly referencing a fictional person, place or thing that someone else made up. Stable Diffusion, for example, can make a picture of dog wearing a tracksuit running on the side of a skyscraper made of pudding in the middle of a noodle hurricane. But it didn't invent any of those individual components, it just combined them.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

What about when a talented comedian speaks in the voice of someone else? Should we just write a law that humans are allowed to do it, but machines aren’t?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Tell me you don't understand the difference between human creative work and """AI""" work without telling me you don't understand the difference between human creative work and """AI""" work

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I don't. What exactly is the difference between me making a remix of someone's voice using software I don't understand and me telling software I don't understand to doing that slightly more?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

There is no difference. My work involves tools, be they hammers or ML models.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

name, image, and likeness can be trademarked.

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