The streaming platform claimed that it already pays nearly 70% of every dollar to labels and publishers and had contributed to a 20% growth in Uruguay’s music industry in 2022
the recording industry is an exploitative middleman that’s obsolete in an age where you don’t need a big company to press vinyl disks to get your music out there
They claim they pay 70% to labels, but labels own Spotify, so this means they’re not actually paying artists.
The recording industry has ALWAYS been pulling accounting tricks on artists.
the recording industry is an exploitative middleman that’s obsolete in an age where you don’t need a big company to press vinyl disks to get your music out there
Academic publishers? Ticket sellers?
at one point, that was the main platform of the Pirate Party: “Copyright should protect the artist, not the publisher.”