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Watch out, you are going into the realm of fixed pies. No one benefits when you make it a zero sum game. Pandora is saying they are trying to get more royaltie
by Guvante 13y ago
Watch out, you are going into the realm of fixed pies. No one benefits when you make it a zero sum game.
Pandora is saying they are trying to get more royalties for artists, and they are truthful in saying that. If they do some growth to get there, does that hurt artists in anyway?
> unfair it is that they also have to pay performance royalties
All the talk of performance royalties is about fairness to artists from what I have read, not complaining about expenses, but saying Pandora actually considers the performer.
- tunesmith 13y agoPandora says they are trying to get more royalty revenue to the artist, but only by saying they want to make massively more revenue overall. Well, so does everyone else. The line about "sure, you get a smaller slice, but we want to make the whole pie bigger!" has been said by a lot of shysters in the past. Pandora wants to pay a lower royalty RATE. And, Pandora paying performer royalty is not about fairness from Pandora's perspective, so you can't really say they are considering the performer any more than I am considering a random stranger on the street by not punching him. They're required to pay performance royalties by law.
- delinka 13y ago"...they want to make massively more revenue overall." Well every company wants more revenue. But I don't believe that's the goal here. I believe they avoid saying that they'd love to cut out the middlemen between Pandora and the artist. How much of those royalty payments are sucked up by licensing agencies? Remove that amount from the equation and now artists can get a bigger paycheck and Pandora can pay less overall.