February 13, 2012
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Swedish musician Magnus Uggla has withdrawn his music from streaming music service Spotify claiming his "songs are being given away".
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The real scammers of the music world are Sony and the rest of the biggies!
So who is really runner Sony these days.
It is not the Japanese!
They just want your MONEY for nothing.
Google 'hollywood accounting', or the stories from well known artists like Courtney Cox, the way the labels screwed artists over when they introduced the CD, screwing artists over by unjust loyalties for digital downloads.
For more examples, the RIAA has sued over 18,000 people on average of $5,000 (some have been sued multiple times), but no artist has seen a sliver of these millions.
The recording industry collects a fee for all blank media (CDs, DVDs etc) in Canada as these MIGHT be used for piracy, at just a few cents per CD... but over millions of CDs and years of these fees have accumulated to tens of millions of dollars (or more...) but not ONE artist has seen a dime of this money.
Who's the real pirate now? the 16 year old pimply geek who downloads a song off the internet or the labels screwing their artists for decades?
wildly off-the-mark again - well done.
google>wiki, and the result says.....
A blank media levy was introduced in Canada in 1997, by the addition of Part VIII, "Private Copying", to the Canadian Copyright Act. The power to set rates and to set the distribution allocation is vested in the Copyright Board of Canada. The Copyright Board has handed the task of collecting and distributing the funds to the Canadian Private Copying Collective, which is a non-profit private organization.
The private copying levy is distributed as per the Copyright Board's allocation as: 66% to eligible authors and publishers,18.9% to eligible performers and 15.1% to eligible record companies.
84.9% author+performers combined.
Does this mean I won't be able to listen to Uggla on loop all day like I do now?
From the Canadian Private Copying Collective's website and their report financial reports upto 2007 - it would seem they have managed to pay the eligible almost 74% of the funds
(CA$ 153,634,00 paid on 206,794,00 for redistribution)
- although this is not 100% - it does seem to be a lot more than, what did you say; " but not ONE artist has seen a dime of this money"
CA$ 153,634,000 seems to be a lot more than a dime.
Maybe you have the direct link to the financial statements, which you based your comment on?
BUT... please continue reading and researching via google and you will see the current levy systems (around the world) is ripe with favoritism towards big artists and the labels...as well as towards abuse/fraud (eg: torrentfreak.com/copyright-group-prosecuted-for-failing-to-pay-artists-090722/ ).
I see you have no argument against my other points in my first post...
God bless and have a nice day!
I believe Spotify's clientèle are the ones who HATE listening at traditionally commercial radio and have to endure boring music where the same songs are played 10 times a day. So, seriously, I don't see why a Spotify user would be listening at Uggla.
Uggla is a hasbeen anyway!
From earlier posts, you know I don't disagree about the way artists get themselves into bad contracts and how the major record companies has distorted the whole music industry.
We are all to blame, we bought the CD players, we bought the CD's at inflated prices. We should have given them the cold shoulder.
Boycotting would have been a clearer message, same goes for the present situation.
Read the article, looks like there was fraud by the employees - forged documents. Stock brokers have done the same, maintenance workers in a Nuclear plant filed false records. Lots of system abuse going on.
I think spotify is pretty good, it is succeeding where lots of others have failed - I use it a lot - free music on tap - like a radio station, but my playlist - great - can't say I listen to Uggla, so no loss.
Who rattled your cage?
At least eZee is willing to have a bit of a ding dong and spar a bit.
Often the discussion is the better part of the miss-targeted dross articles on here.
-his opinions are fairly consistent and make sense - which can't be said for a lot of the others.
I see from elsewhere - you don't seem shy about mincing your words either.
I dislike Magnus Ugla as a supposed "artist".
No one rattled my cage, just more so a case of a certain poster didn't read what I said.