Comment on Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists

Outtatime@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• Gazumi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  No, it’s as indicated, that is, to have artists paid fairly for their creative talents. Trickle down economics exemplified. It is akin to you working your job through an agency but the agency paying you far less than minimal wage. Like a lottery, only a few will make real money.

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  • Alinor@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    But according to the article 70% of the money they make from music is already going to record labels and publishers, so what exactly is Spotify supposed to do here to give more money to the artists?

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    • 1rre@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Exactly… The issue isn’t spotify taking a very normal cut, it’s the record labels taking a majority cut and it seems this bill misses that entirely

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      • brunofin@lemm.ee ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s definitely the case, and that’s not the only country with laws that protect artists this way, for example Brazil right next to it also have it’s own set of laws, had then even before Spotify was a thing, but Spotify is happily in Brazil since 2014.

        The Uruguayan law is just not well though, and that’s what happens when you put incompetent people in charge of making laws for things they don’t have the slightest clue of how they work. They kill an entire industry.

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      • Corgana@startrek.website ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Spotify is still signing unfair contracts with those labels though. They could throw their weight around and demand higher cuts for artists but they aren’t. No need to let them off the hook when they’re choosing to participate and profit in a corrupt industry, IMO.

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    • CheeseNoodle@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      iirc spotify has some weird revenue sharing thing where that 70% is split between all artists in a very non-linear way. You don’t get money based on how many of your songs get sold you get a slice of the total pie based on some weird formula. The result is that top artists get paid for more than their own songs sales and everyone elses gets less than their own songs sales to provide that extra cut to the top performers.

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      • raptir@lemdro.id ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s not just Spotify though. Everyone uses a similar algorithm. Deezer and Tidal have talked about implementing user-centric payments but have not done so.

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    • DacoTaco@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think the law has more to do with indie artists not getting paid shit. People who want to self publish and cut out the middle man

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    • Gazumi@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      “According to the article”…

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