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Breaking free from big tech and big content with authors Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin

Decoder with Nilay Patel

CHAPTER

Spotify and the Labels - How Much Transparency Do We Need?

The way that it works at the moment, you sign up to a streaming platform, and then that all goes into a pool. DISA has been talking about how they would really love to try a user-centric model where your money gets matched to the actual artist that you listen to. The labels are investors in Spotify. They own a big piece of it. They negotiate a rate with Spotify that's very low per stream. And there's no obvious way to know what's going on inside this very opaque set of interlocking commercial arrangements.

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