Spotify is receiving money for something they did not create.
Neither the writers of the lyrics nor the fans who transcribed them get a cut.
That is fucked up.
It is fucked up that the fans who are transcribing do not get a cut, but it's not like they were misled to believe they would make a cut before they started doing it. The people doing that are doing it out of a passion for the music.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be paid of course they should, if it was up to me I'd say make them all rich. I just think it's a stretch to imply that Spotify is stealing anything here
I like stealing. According to my belief system theft is good.
It's the fact Spotify is charging users for something stolen is what I think is fucked.
Something stolen should be freely shared.
The writers almost certainly do get a cut. Musixmatch does not own the copyright to any of the lyrics, and as such, negotiated with the copyright holders in order to be allowed to store, display, and sell access to the lyrics. This almost certainly involved some amount of money changing hands.
Spotify is paying money for access to the lyrics and using that as a feature in their product. A chunk of that money is almost certainly going back to the actual writers.
Spotify is receiving money for something they did not create.
Spotify are paying musixmatch for the lyrics.
Spotify are paying musixmatch for the lyrics.
musixmatch didn't create the content either.
Irrelevant. It’s up to musixmatch to pay the creators or supplier of their content, not Spotify.
Ah, the buygamekeys .ru approach.
It’s not up to Spotify to pay the wages of the company that provides a paid service to them.
Just to sell stolen goods, huh?
Stolen? Who stole the lyrics?
Anyone extracting rents on gatekeeping access to them.
No one is gathering access to lyrics.
Who “stole“ something here, and from who?
No one is gathering access to lyrics.
I never said they were. The verb I used was gatekeeping.
You know, like how Spotify locks access to them behind a paywall. The exact thing I just described.
Autocorrect sorry, supposed to be gate keeping.
Spotify isn’t gate keeping access to the lyrics - you’re free to look them up on musixmatch or any of the other lyric sites and services. They’ve simply added them to their subscription services. You don’t know what gate keeping means.
You also still haven’t answer how anyone “stole” anything? Who stole what and from who?
You as an individual can go access the public free database. Spotify as a corporation is a customer of musixmatch.
https://about.musixmatch.com/business/customer-stories/Spotify
I'm not sure what exactly you're trying to say?
Spotify is receiving money for something they did not create.
Neither the writers of the lyrics nor the fans who transcribed them get a cut.
That is fucked up.
It is fucked up that the fans who are transcribing do not get a cut, but it's not like they were misled to believe they would make a cut before they started doing it. The people doing that are doing it out of a passion for the music.
I'm not saying they shouldn't be paid of course they should, if it was up to me I'd say make them all rich. I just think it's a stretch to imply that Spotify is stealing anything here
I like stealing. According to my belief system theft is good.
It's the fact Spotify is charging users for something stolen is what I think is fucked.
Something stolen should be freely shared.
The writers almost certainly do get a cut. Musixmatch does not own the copyright to any of the lyrics, and as such, negotiated with the copyright holders in order to be allowed to store, display, and sell access to the lyrics. This almost certainly involved some amount of money changing hands.
Spotify is paying money for access to the lyrics and using that as a feature in their product. A chunk of that money is almost certainly going back to the actual writers.
Spotify are paying musixmatch for the lyrics.
musixmatch didn't create the content either.
Irrelevant. It’s up to musixmatch to pay the creators or supplier of their content, not Spotify.
Ah, the buygamekeys .ru approach.
It’s not up to Spotify to pay the wages of the company that provides a paid service to them.
Just to sell stolen goods, huh?
Stolen? Who stole the lyrics?
Anyone extracting rents on gatekeeping access to them.
No one is gathering access to lyrics.
Who “stole“ something here, and from who?
I never said they were. The verb I used was gatekeeping.
You know, like how Spotify locks access to them behind a paywall. The exact thing I just described.
Autocorrect sorry, supposed to be gate keeping.
Spotify isn’t gate keeping access to the lyrics - you’re free to look them up on musixmatch or any of the other lyric sites and services. They’ve simply added them to their subscription services. You don’t know what gate keeping means.
You also still haven’t answer how anyone “stole” anything? Who stole what and from who?