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I'm not terribly surprised. The rights management around that is incredibly expensive and very complex. I also have vague memories of some startup circa 2011/
by twunde 9y ago
I'm not terribly surprised. The rights management around that is incredibly expensive and very complex. I also have vague memories of some startup circa 2011/2012 that did live DJing that ended up dying pretty quickly
- dinedal 9y agoIt was probably https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turntable.fm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turntable.fm
- threetimesthurs 9y agoThere was turntable.fm. Now there's https://www.jqbx.fm https://www.jqbx.fm which is sort of doing live DJing but with Spotify
- twunde 9y agoAh thank you. That's what I was thinking of
- firegrind 9y agoIt's easy. Artists define a license for each track which explains whether it can be remixed.
- twunde 9y agoThat's not actually true within the US. Each song sample needs to be licensed individually. This becomes more complex when a song you want to remix contains samples of other songs. In general, this has become prohibitively expensive, which is why most modern songs only have a few "samples". Any company that does remixing as suggested above would have to manage the licensing in some way or pass on the risk to the users while still risking lawsuits from the music industry.