3 ms·
What's funny is most radio stations use pirate services to get music... And it's completely legal. They can count how many people listened to each pay, and sen
by pierat 3y ago
What's funny is most radio stations use pirate services to get music... And it's completely legal.
They can count how many people listened to each pay, and send payment per estimated listeners, and it's legal.
I can also buy sheet music for $popularsong, perform it in public. And if I pay mechanistic reproduction rights per listener, it's legal.
We need something similar for video content. That would allow a mega-aggregator to get everything, and pay royalties per play. And if they start charging stupid money, any new company can build it!
- lupire 3y agoThis is compulsory licensing and it currently applies to non-dramatic musical recordings in the USA. It is not something that the music rights owners voluntarily created. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/115 https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/17/115
- qingcharles 3y agoI mean -- that's essentially what TikTok and YouTube have been doing, right? They let anyone upload any music and then figure out where the rights payments go. That's the main reason I use YouTube Music over all the others: because they have ultra rare shit that some dude in Kazakhstan found on a CD in a Dumpster in 1991 that wouldn't make it into Apple Music.