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Re:Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties by pbreit on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @05:53PM (#10809599)
You could easily argue the labels create all the value. They can pretty much turn any type of talent into bankable star.
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Re:Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties by kalleboo on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @07:23AM (#10811791)
And in thst world I almost prefer the honesty of the Korean/Japanese music factories where the singers just get salaries instead of this whole system of Hollywood accounting where an artist is just an expense account with all expenses to be paid to their label, never to go into the black...
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Re:Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties by sosborn on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @06:17PM (#10809706)
> They can pretty much turn any type of talent into bankable star.

For all of their successes they have many, many failures.

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Re:Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties by digler999 on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @06:04PM (#10809645)
They "create" it artificially by not allowing radio stations to play music that isn't part of their cartel.
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