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Spotify is a creepy, and grossly unethical, platform at this point. it rips off musicians and rewards huge companies -- and itself. Apparently what it's doing is legal, however.
This is great reporting, from a new book by Liz Pelly. A compelling read.
https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/
@dangillmor This is what happens when #platforms are not properly regulated. #tiktok #facebook #instagram #youtube I just wonder about the possibility that #spotify isn’t just copying an already existing ‘business model’ from eg. a social media conglomerate, or whether it’s (already) the other way around. @EUCommission #dsa #dma.
@huis Spotify's current state is the result of regulation, specifically #copyright and art. 17 of the 2019 copyright directive in the EU.
@huis Probably, but art. 19 transparency obligations are in the first instance the responsibility of labels or collecting societies I think. I have no idea whether anything happened. https://mamot.fr/@nemobis/112236494808525546
I'm sure the collecting societies got some privileged access to YouTube and Spotify data after 2019, but I don't know how much and I doubt they're sharing it with small artists.