Just saw your edit. The copyright infringement issue is on the copyright owner. They have to be aware about it and then alert the distributor of those song(s) to take them down and give them the profits earned. Also Spotify/streaming platform isn't the ones who are liable in this situation, all the liability is on the music distributor (tunecore, distrokid, onerpm, amuse, cdbaby etc) and artist who released a song with copyright material.

This s*** happened to me, I posted a beat and then someone used it and released it on all music streaming platforms without buying a lease. It racked up some decent streams and the guy wasn't responding to my emails.

I then contacted their distributor and told them they didn't have the rights to use that beat so they were infringing on copyright and they took it down from everywhere and sent me the profits earned from that song. Was really easy tbh.

Yea got the 10k infront of me rn and they just don't breakdown the cost more. Although if you go to the section where they describe each term you gonna have more detail.

So if you go to the IR on Spotify, look at the 2020 AR, go to page F-12 you can see what they define as a cost of good.

Pretty much what we said, royalties and server costs.

Too bad companies don't like to breakdown their costs unless is in their favor.

Sweet thanks fam

Now I can see if they cook the books like nba teams do to underpay players 👀

Hahaha their s*** is audited by the big 4, it's so f***ing hard to actually understand if they are saying some f*** s*** straight to your face.

Oh btw it's cost of revenue not cost of good, if you trying to ctrl f.

Id be the peoples CEO

we ain't making that much lmaoooo

That’s interesting, how do you find out how distributed the songs? Because as you know those services allow you to choose a label name.

Someone who was distributed under some independent label (via Empire) took my homies beat, they tried contacting the a&r/executive of that label but he left them on read.

That's actually fantastic.

Apple Music is objectively better than spotify

I gotta check out one of your albums, I’ve seen the name but I’m not familiar with your tunes

***Bankrupt

Don't care we up

It is important to note that Spotify runs a massive ad-supported music service with very different economics to the paid Spotify Premium tier, while Apple Music only offers a paid service.

is the article in op suggesting all of the artists get a part of Spotify’s ad revenue ?

If you bankrupt your company then how would you be able to keep paying the artists? You'd be a lot like movie pass, the people's champ for a couple months.

You really are wasting your time talking sense to that guy, many have tried

Lmao imagine your company going bankrupt because you have to pay a billion dollars to the girl that made Dance Monkey

05 f*** em

I found out the distributor because I got a copyright claim on the beat on Youtube and saw the name. Just upload it on YouTube you'll see who the distributor is once you get the claim.

Here's an example

Yeah sometimes the label does ignore and won't act unless you threaten legal action against them but just go straight to the distributor first and try getting them to take it down.

That's good money down the line for up and coming artists, sorry

nigga what?? Imagine posting on KTT and not secretly being sponsored by a rappers team to gas them up on a kanyewest forum

peep and lmk what u think!