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Spotify to let artists post music without labels:
In a move with the power to shake up the music industry, Spotify said Thursday that it will allow select artists to upload songs directly without record labels or distributors.
Spotify, by far the biggest player in the fast-growing format of streaming, said that the feature for now is only in the test phase for select US-based independent artists who have secured their own copyrights.
But the feature, if eventually put to scale, could in the long run drastically change the business decisions for artists who would not need to go through a label or one of the batch of new companies, such as TuneCore, that provide uploading services for independent artists.
Spotify said artists would simply upload their songs to the platform, first seeing a preview of how it will look, with the Swedish company automatically sending royalties each month.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by DannyB on Friday September 21 2018, @02:03PM
Anything that unseats the powerful RIAA leech industry is a good thing. They harm tech. They are behind DRM. The DMCA, which is now accepted as normal, is a travesty of corruption and special interest. An IP address is not a person. How the RIAA hurts artists is well documented. All of these and more issues about the RIAA need to be
disgustdiscussed by the public and artists.The internet can enable artists and fans to connect and conduct commerce without the middle man that gets the lions share of the money. No more need for physical media.
The fact that I can buy tracks and albums from Amazon, at reasonable prices, and as downloadable genuine mp3 files was a huge step in the right direction. I still sometimes prefer physical CDs which I can rip myself. Other times I prefer mp3s that Amazon lets me download. Now if only it would work this way for movies and ebooks.
BTW, I have no incentive to share or pirate mp3 files I download from Amazon. I put them on all of my personal devices, and that's it. Also if I rip the mp3s from a CD I purchase. This would also hold true if I could download paid for movies and ebooks.
Oh, and another question to be
disgustdiscussed: Why does a movie, which might cost hundreds of millions of dollars and a couple years to make, cost less than a CD from the RIAA? Especially when the CD has maybe two good tracks, and eight filler tracks. Why does an eBook cost so much, usually from a single author, compared to a movie that cost vast time and money to create? (I can somewhat understand this for books with a limited audience: "Butterfly wing colors and their historical effect upon the British empire")The lower I set my standards the more accomplishments I have.