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I don't think it's a good example. To show analogical one - why would artists want money for their work, e.g. songs, from radio stations playing them?
by franczesko 6y ago
I don't think it's a good example. To show analogical one - why would artists want money for their work, e.g. songs, from radio stations playing them?
- dane-pgp 6y agoI don't think your analogy is as good as you are imagining. Payola[0] was definitely a thing, so there have definitely been artists (or rather, rights holders) who would pay to have radio stations play their songs (the reverse of being paid by the radio stations). Of course, not every rights holder did that with every song, but your analogy also fails to account for the fact that platforms aren't hosting the entirety of each article, they are providing links. That's more like an artist sending a clip from their new song to a radio station and letting them play it for free, so that people go out and buy the full recording. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payola