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Redistributing The Streaming Wealth: Why Listening Hours Not Artist Popularity May Drive The Divvying Up Of Royalties

Source: HypeBot
May 19, 2015

The question of just how to distribute the royalty dollars from music services has moved from a back-office thought exercise to an out-in-the-open debate. Moving forward in this debate is the argument that it would be fairer—particularly to emerging, independent, or less “popular” artists—to distribute royalties on an each pair of ears basis (i.e., per subscriber) rather than on an all pairs of ears basis (i.s., all subscribers). Guest Post by David Touve on the Rockonomic Blog See Laguana’s “How to make streaing royalties fairer,” and Gottfried’s, “Throw ...
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