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For example, I decide if my music is going to stream on YouTube or Spotify, or it will only sell on Bandcamp. I decide if I am going to go with a publisher, wh
by BenGosub 1y ago
For example, I decide if my music is going to stream on YouTube or Spotify, or it will only sell on Bandcamp.
I decide if I am going to go with a publisher, which publisher and what platforms.
What you label as "typically" has only been the case for the past ≈15 years.
- wiseowise 1y agoYou don’t decide anything on the platforms. The moment you upload your music there, they decide what they do with it.
- falcor84 1y agoYouTube and Spotify and Bandcamp are distribution platforms, not your consumers
- BenGosub 1y agoMy point is that just like I decide if I am going to distribute to streaming services, I also should be able to decide if I am going to allow models to train on my work. Isn't this something obvious?
- falcor84 1y agoIt is not just not obvious to me, but goes entirely against my mental model. Staying with your example of music or book authors - a musician or author might choose which distribution platforms they work with, but they don't have the ability to tell a particular shop to not resell their record/book, let alone to tell a particular "consumer" not to listen to it / read it.
- BenGosub 1y agoYes, I agree with you and when you give distribution rights to a third party they have the distribution control. How I imagine this mess being resolved is by a middleman, like the distribution services in music, there need to be companies licensing training data, from which artists could take a small cut.