If you're a creative worker, chances are your contract guarantees you royalties and that royalty contract allows you to audit the royalty statement. In every instance in which they found an accounting discrepancy, except for one, the money was going to the artist labels instead of the artist,. The artist were getting ripped off. All of these contracts because of monopoly, they're all settled in four states. At the stroke of a pen, you put more money in the pockets of more artists over the world.
Biden will get a new Chief of Staff, the U.S. Attorney has questions for Amazon, and Elon takes the stand. Over at Netflix: strong subscriber growth, and Reed Hastings is out as Co-CEO. And of course, more layoffs. Then we’re joined by Friend of Pivot Cory Doctorow on his new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back.”
Cory is on Twitter at @doctorow and you can find his book here.
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