glenn mcdonald @glenn_mcdonald
Fugitive from what I used to know yesterday. furia.com Cambridge, MA Joined March 2008-
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Algorithms, genres, fraud and how people are both amazing and disappointing: I join Ari Herstand for a journey through curiosity and confusion. aristake.com/glenn-mcdonald/
Stubbornness, and enough computers: a love story. Recounted by @ariteplitsky for Billboard Canada. ca.billboard.com/business/strea…
My birthday so it's my job to pick the song of the day, and it's this one: youtube.com/watch?v=jm989E…
The #NERevs don’t “press” so much as run towards the ball so it can more easily be passed behind them.
It's 9:01am. I have experienced 1 cup of coffee and 3 things that AI can do and absolutely shouldn't.
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Setting a per-track play threshold for music-streaming payments makes anticipatory sense if the future you fear is infinite unique AI-generated "songs" for every listener+moment. The current streaming distribution model couldn't support that, though. Yet.
Every Noise at Once @EveryNoise
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This is an interesting approach to AI legislation. Schiff's bill forces Generative AI developers to disclose what data is used for training, sidestepping the question of when use needs to be licensed. It poses the question: Don't we have a right to know?
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We need to remove the barriers and inefficiencies that prevent audiences from directly funding art, but anyone who creates art isn't automatically owed a living wage
@future_of_music i think it's terrible for independent labels. losing that small amount of income per track across thousands of tracks in a large label catalogue will amount to a few hundred dollars less per month, which small labels like ours can't afford to lose
(oh BTW, we just tried recalculating the math another way, it might be closer to a .5% increase in royalty payouts for artists above the 1000 stream threshhold. Still not much!)
To understand more about that part of the issue, be sure to follow our allies at the @musicFIRST Coalition. There's a bill designed to take on that part of the problem, the American Music Fairness Act.
Youtube, Spotify, etc can always say "don't like those micropennies we're offering in sound recording royalties? Well you should be grateful--it's more than you'd get from FM radio!"
Even if you're not making the kind of music that'd ever get played on commercial FM, this impacts what you're able to earn for your music, because it deflates the value of music in licensing negotations for competing music delivery services.
Community broadcasters and LPFMs have teamed up with artists in trying to fix this mess, but we're up against big lobbyists from I Heart Radio and the rest of them.
You might not be aware, but FM radio in the US currently pays recording artists nothing when their work is played over the air. We're basically alone among our peer nations; it's an international embarrassment.
Finally, undergirding all of this is the idea that companies using music are doing musicians a favor with "promotion", and so there isn't an obligation to pay royalties. This is the legacy of lobbyists for big radio broadcast companies.
This is why--whatever other changes might be proposed to royalty systems--musicians need expanded collective bargaining rights and a seat at the table in determining business models and service design. That might take legislation and/or action by federal agencies
That might be the scariest part. Losing out on a few bucks might not be a big deal. But what if next year Spotify decides the threshold should be 10,000 plays?
The reality is that Spotify can make moves like this because artists don't have collective bargaining power to push back. Spotify can essentially offer take-it-or-leave it terms. Only the biggest labels have countervailing leverage to contest bad terms.
Others have observed that some of the stated rationale for these changes--addressing incentives that lead to bulk/spam uploads, white noise, playlist fraud etc-- aren't totally off the mark. But there are likely better ways to deal with these challenges.
The steepness of the power law curve, however, doesn't justify a lack of concern for artists who are out on the long tail, making music that isn't racking up huge play counts but still contributing immensely to our shared culture.
There's a pyramid chart from a Luminate report that's been widely circulating, and it's especially confusing as an illustration of what's being demonetized because a lot of those tracks are currently getting zero plays. So they're not really getting "demonetized".
Now, you might ask, how's it possible that there's not much money at stake here if 80% of tracks are being demonetized. It's important to understand that those 80% represent less than .5% of overall plays.
It's felt more at an emotional and symbolic level, as a company treating smaller musicians as disposable, in the context of a series of escalating business and public policy moves that for many musicians feel insulting and antagonistic.
Now, it's not letting Spotify off the hook to observe there's not a lot of $ at stake here. 1000 plays in sound recording royalties is maybe $3. Sure, it adds up, but this move is likely not the key factor that determines whether a musician earns a sustainable living.
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