[Tucson AZ, Feb 15, 2024] A recent, significant change in Spotify’s terms for audiobook publishers and rightsholders allows Spotify to “reproduce, make available, perform and display, translate, modify, [and] create derivative works from” audiobooks. (Shout out to StoryFair author Amy Shojai for bringing this to our attention).
Appears as those changes are not in the best interest of publishers, authors, or human narrators, but that continues a tradition of Spotify taking advantage of rights holders.
Whoa. That's as bad as Amazon is with author/publisher book prices, sales, etc. Shame on Spotify.
No, this is a LOT worse.
If you upload an audiobook to Spotify, you grant Spotify the right to use your story and characters and, for example, produce sequels, or spinoff series, or whatever — with ZERO need for consent, and ZERO compensation.
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