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I agree, Apple should front the costs during that 3 month trial period. It's just not fair to not pay artists. The only benefit I see from this is that artists
by xasos 11y ago
I agree, Apple should front the costs during that 3 month trial period. It's just not fair to not pay artists. The only benefit I see from this is that artists can get exposure they normally wouldn't get, because of the smaller library size.
- ceejayoz 11y ago> I agree, Apple should front the costs during that 3 month trial period. Precisely. We're talking about a company with $200 billion in cash reserves asking artists - many independent and hardly famous - to subsidize their marketing efforts.
- kstrauser 11y ago> Apple should front the costs during that 3 month trial period. It's just not fair to not pay artists. Why? Apple negotiated that arrangement with those artists' labels, who agreed that this was a fair and equitable situation. You and I might like to think that we would have chosen otherwise, but the people involved in this contract were happy with the outcome. Remember, Apple didn't unilaterally come up with this. They didn't just open a service and announce that they weren't going to pay anyone.