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Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off

Spotify's relationship to artists can be kind of confusing. On the one hand, they pay a laughably low per-stream rate, as in homeopathic residues of a penny. On the other hand, the Big Three labels get a fortune from Spotify. And on the other other hand, it makes sense that the rate for a stream heard by one person…
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Jun 22, 2024Creative workers deserve better than a choice as to who rips them off by dougb5111121
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