5 Things Wrong With Major Music Publisher Spotify Settlement
- David Clowery
- 8 mars 2016
- 1 min de lecture
1/ It’s not a real settlement, it’s more like a bail out. It doesn’t get rid of the real problem: infringement liabilities.
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2/ The NMPA publisher payout settlement supposes there is a royalty rate with which to calculate unpaid royalties. But there is no royalty rate!
... Spotify is trying to unilaterally impose some theoretical royalty rate on all the world’s songwriters.
3/ The settlement essentially forces publishers and songwriters to build Spotify’s licensing and royalty database.
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4/ It looks like the $5 million “penalty” would be divided up among publishers by market share.
... The unpaid and unclaimed royalties are more likely to belong to the independents who weren’t licensed.
5/ I have a fundamental objection to the premise that Spotify and HFA have somehow learned their lesson and reformed their practices and are thus deserving of a settlement.
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