Comment on YSK: Deezer, the music streaming service, is owned by a company whose Founder and CEO is a Russian Oligarch with connections to the Kremlin and donates to the American Republican party.

AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• lemmyknow@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  He can take Bowie if he wants, but Charli??? This is not what PC Music fought for :(

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  • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Either of them could stop working with Warner Music, they aren’t slaves

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    • ProfessorProteus@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Well, David Bowie stopped working for anyone years ago. RIP

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      • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Oh, yeah sorry, I guess I meant his estate, though it’s certainly possible that Warner just now owns his music in perpetuity

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    • lemmyknow@lemmy.today ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Uhhh… not sure Bowie can do much

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      • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Yeah I meant his estate, but I updated my comment, because it appears his estate sold all the rights of his music to Warner

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    • FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Depending on the contract she signed: maybe not.

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      • kautau@lemmy.world ⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Then she has a shit agent, who probably has an in with Warner. Record labels should be competing for wildly popular artists, not the inverse

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