India Arie, Graham Nash Join Mass Exodus From Spotify

[babylonsister]

https://www.thedailybeast.com/india-arie-graham-nash-join-mass-exodus-from-spotify?ref=home

India Arie, Graham Nash Join Mass Exodus From Spotify
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Allison Quinn
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Published Feb. 01, 2022 10:24AM ET

India Arie has joined the growing protest over Joe Rogan’s penchant for peddling misinformation on Spotify—and she’s added further fuel to the outrage by pointing out his “problematic” comments about race. The singer announced her decision on Instagram late Monday, saying she has decided to follow in the footsteps of Neil Young and Joni Mitchell, who pulled their music from the streaming platform last week after hundreds of health-care professionals sounded the alarm about Rogan’s frequent spreading of misinformation on the streaming service. “Neil Young opened a door that I must walk through,” Arie wrote, adding: “I believe in freedom of speech. However, I find Joe Rogan problematic for reasons other than his Covid interviews. For me, it’s also his language around race.” (In an interview with Jordan Peterson last week, Rogan argued that he had at least some understanding of Black identity because he is Italian.) Rocker Graham Nash has also taken issue with “the COVID disinformation spread by Joe Rogan on Spotify,” he said in a statement Tuesday. And for that reason, he too has said he will be yanking all his music off the platform. As more and more artists have cut ties with Spotify, the CEO offered to add warning labels to certain content, and Rogan himself released a video claiming he just wants to have “interesting conversations” and not “promote misinformation.”

[BeckyDem]

1. Timber.......

I believe the important distinction here w/ Rogan is not that his free speech has been hindered, it is the freedom of those who do not want to be associated with a media platform that spreads deadly lies during a pandemic.

Spotify was fine with Rogan's lies until they realized it could hurt their revenues. That is the ugly side of capitalism or what some would say, the free market, baby.

[obamanut2012]

2. I am betting Taylor Swift leaves soonish

That is all it will take, her, Beyonce, Adele, a few others.

[tishaLA]

7. If Adele and Swift left, that'd be seismic

I feel like they got notice from some big star that they needed to do something with Rogan over the weekend and that's why they came up with that ridiculous warning policy. But it's still just lipstick on a pig.

[obamanut2012]

9. I suspect Swift will be the one to do it first

[IcyPeas]

11. I read something yesterday that Swift doesn't even own her catalog of music

so I don't know if she can leave Spotify -- it's up to whoever owns her catalog.

[padah513]

12. Just read about it after seeing your post

You are right. The record company owns about 67% of her music. She wants her masters though. That should be interesting.

[Fla Dem]

14. That's true, as she was starting out her recording company took ownership of all her recordings.

She is now rerecording her songs and taking the copyright.

Why Taylor Swift is re-recording her studio albums, and what it says about copyright battles with mega music labels.
November 16, 2021 08:33:17 IST
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At 15 years of age, Swift signed a six-album record deal with Big Machine Records, then owned by Scott Borchetta. Through this deal, Swift effectively gave Big Machine Records full ownership of the masters (i.e. the official recording of a song) of all the music on her forthcoming albums, including videos and album art, licensing them to use it in any way they wished. That left Swift with no control over how, when, and to whom these rights could be sold.

This is why in 2019, when Scooter Braun, manager of Ithaca Holdings, bought Big Machine Records for $300 million, he correspondingly acquired the masters in Swift’s six albums. Swift had no say, even revealing that she was treacherously given no notice of the transaction. Her masters were sold once again in November 2020 to a private equity firm called Shamrock Holdings. Until now, Swift’s attempts to reacquire her masters has not been successful.

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Ideally, once the rights for music are sold, the artist is often helpless. However, Swift’s case is unique as she is a part of the small group of artists, who apart from singing their songs, also play a crucial part in writing them. Thus, having written every single song released in her six albums, she continues to retain the “sync rights” of her music in her legal arsenal.

This is why in a move possibly unprecedented by Ithaca Holdings and Shamrock Holdings, Swift was able to block the use of her songs on all projects which required a "synchronisation license." This license is also the reason why Swift is legally permitted to re-record her masters without being sued for infringement of copyright, albeit for her songs, by Shamrock Holdings. In addition to this synchronisation license, what proves advantageous to Swift is that the clause, barring her from re-recording her songs in her 2005 Agreement with Big Machine Records, has also reportedly expired.
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[Cha]

3. KR TY

[Deuxcents]

4. It took one person to take a stand

That is what we need for other issues...for instance..a banned book gets sold off the shelves. We gotta fight back the best we can and I’m gonna do my part, too.

[gristy]

5. I predict an artist-owned, cooperative streaming service in the near future.

Wouldn't that be cool?

[tishaLA]

8. There is one already. Tidal.

Jay Z owns it.

[gristy]

10. Is Tidal cooperatively owned?

I suppose if the company is organized in such a way that voting shares are given to and owned only by contributing artists, and Jay Z does not have majority ownership, then it would be.

[Beaverhausen]

6. I have friends who say Tidal is a much better service

for one thing they pay the artists better than Spotify. That should be good enough reason.

[gldstwmn]

13. The boomers are coming for Rogan. I love it.

[gratuitous]

15. Neil Young and Joni Mitchell recorded signature albums 50 years ago

And people are still paying to download the music from "Harvest" and "Blue." What do you suppose people will be paying in 2072 to hear a Joe "Stinkbutt" Rogan podcast?