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SAVAGE LANDS (MEGADETH, SEPULTURA & OBITUARY) Preserve Forest With Royalties From First Single
Savage Lands raises money for reforestation and the creation of sanctuaries free of human destruction.
After significant changes to royalty payments and attitudes toward independent musicians by streaming services, muz4now shifts priorities... #MusicBiz#royalties#MakeTheShift#IndieMusic
#Music#Streaming#Spotify#UMG#Sony#WMG#Majors#Royalties#Copyright: "Conversations have been going on for weeks with the major record labels, Universal Music Group, Sony Music Entertainment and Warner Music Group, as well as independent labels and distributors, sources say. While the new royalty system will keep its existing pro-rata model, it introduces new floors that will grow the pool for more established artists and rights holders.
The changes to Spotify’s royalty model, which were first reported by Music Business Worldwide, include:
A new threshold of minimum annual streams that a track must meet before it starts to generate royalties. The threshold, according to MBW, will de-monetize tracks that had previously received 0.5% of Spotify’s royalty pool.
Financial penalties for music distributors and labels when fraudulent activity on tracks they have uploaded to Spotify has been detected.
A minimum play-time length that non-music noise tracks, such as bird sounds or white noise, must reach to generate royalties.
The specific benchmarks of these changes and how financial penalties will be calculated or implemented are currently unclear."
I'm actually writing a script called "Billy Shakes Is Out for Royalties" in which Billy Shakes is coming for all the royalties he’s owed by the producers in a fun fever dream of a film noir exploitation film.
Billy’s back for justice and 400 years of payback.
I was graciously referred to a producer during the #WGAstrike about Billy Shakes Is Out for Royalties. Just sent an email, fingers crossed for a meeting.
Billy Shakes is coming for all the royalties he’s owed by the producers, a fun fever dream of a film noir exploitation film.
Remember how Napster was demonized for taking money away from artists? Anti-pirating messages have been pushed by platforms much more than artists, because they are protecting their own ill-gotten pirated wealth. #piracy#Royalties
(Note: Napster is no longer peer-to-peer so this isn't really relevant to them anymore, but this is about the other platforms which were always legal, licensed, and "legitimate".)