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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by pmontra on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:33AM (#38392552)
Do artists have a contract with Spotify or with their labels? If it's with the labels, Spotify pays the labels and they give to the artists what they agreed upon, possibly an unfairly low amount of money but contracts are contracts.

The Uruguay parliament should regulate the contracts between their local artists and the labels. Some of them will ban Uruguay artists but some of them, maybe local ones, will intercept the money no matter what.

Or Spotify makes deals with individual artists, but there is a long and thin tail of them.

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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by 542458 on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:37AM (#38392588)
Small indie artists will have contracts with Spotify. Larger artists with labels will have contracts with their labels, who will have contracts with Spotify. As you suspected, the labels typically take a ridiculous cut of streaming revenue.
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Re:Spotify Will End Service in Uruguay Due to Bill Requiring... by troupo on Thursday November 23, 2023 @08:57AM (#38392792)
> Small indie artists will have contracts with Spotify.

They won't. They will have contracts with distributors: https://artists.spotify.com/providers

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