Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties

Re:Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties by vpeters25 on Tuesday December 29, 2015 @06:01PM (#10809630)

> The entire system of copyright and recorded art needs to be abolished, and any music that is recorded instantly becomes the public domain.

I think that is a little extreme but I agree the system is way out of hand, specially in duration of copyright terms.

Copyright was supposed to allow artists to earn a living off their craft instead of relaying on being sponsored by the local nobility. It is not supposed to make you rich.

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Re:Spotify Hit with $150M Class Action Over Unpaid Royalties by chillingeffect on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @02:44PM (#10813894)

exactly. the ideal system would be lots of artists making middle-class salaries (e.g. $35k - $90k) and producing content meaningful to smaller groups, but we have a handful of multi-millionaires making prurient content and local artists getting next to nothing. it's really prescient of the larger loss of the middle class.

If only people wouldn't spend money on cheesy, raunchy music and distribute their spending more evenly to smaller-time, more interesting artists... but I don't know how to raise the level of discourse around that. I would love to hear a wider variety of music on the radio!

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