Spotify gives Premium subscribers 15 hours of free audiobook listening per month

Marked under “Included in Premium,” any audiobook within the Spotify Premium catalog will be available for streaming. Additionally, users with Premium audiobook access will have the option to download content for offline listening. Spotify’s audiobook selection covers more than 70% of bestsellers, sourced from publishers such as Hachette, HarperCollins Publishers, Macmillan, Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, and RB Media.

Source: Spotify gives Premium subscribers access to 150,000+ audiobooks, and 15 hours free listening per month

RightsTech Extra

AI Companies Get the Picture

By Paul Sweeting

One of the biggest challenges facing copyright owners in grappling with the rapid development of generative AI technology, apart from a murky legal status, has been market failure, as discussed here in previous posts. The amount of existing material needed to train gen-AI models is so great, and so varied, that gauging the value of any one piece of it to establish a market price for it for licensing purposes is often effectively impossible. One group of rights owners is finding willing buyers among AI companies, however. An active, albeit for various reasons mostly sotto voce market has begun to emerge for the use of images held in large photo archives and by photo agencies and social media platforms, complete with per-unit industry and at least a nod toward creator attribution... Read More >>

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