The Uruguayan Parliament approved an amendment to the country's copyright law last month

Spotify will end service in Uruguay due to bill requiring fair pay for artists:: The Uruguayan Parliament approved an amendment to the country’s copyright law last month

  • @[email protected]English
    37•1 year ago

    Exactly… The issue isn’t spotify taking a very normal cut, it’s the record labels taking a majority cut and it seems this bill misses that entirely

    • Bruno FingerEnglish
      17•1 year ago

      That’s definitely the case, and that’s not the only country with laws that protect artists this way, for example Brazil right next to it also have it’s own set of laws, had then even before Spotify was a thing, but Spotify is happily in Brazil since 2014.

      The Uruguayan law is just not well though, and that’s what happens when you put incompetent people in charge of making laws for things they don’t have the slightest clue of how they work. They kill an entire industry.

      • @Th3D3k0yEnglish
        1•1 year ago

        I feel like this whole bill is kind of a government sized “thanks Obama”.

    • CorganaEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Spotify is still signing unfair contracts with those labels though. They could throw their weight around and demand higher cuts for artists but they aren’t. No need to let them off the hook when they’re choosing to participate and profit in a corrupt industry, IMO.

      • @[email protected]English
        3•1 year ago

        Is it Spotify that arrange the cut for artists or the label though?
        I don’t know but I’d think it’s the labels as it’s too much for Spotify to negotiate per-artist?

        When food companies use slave labour or cut down old growth forest for intensive farms do we get mad at Walmart/Tesco/Carrefour for having a normal margin on what they buy from the food companies (which may or may not leave enough for the products to be sourced sustainably, but that’s a separate argument as the food companies would likely take a higher margin over keeping the same one and making their food more sustainable if paid more) or do we blame the food companies/their suppliers?

        • @MirsheEnglish
          3•1 year ago

          I mean, yes, but at the same time, the grocery stores can exert pressure on the food suppliers by saying “we aren’t going to buy food that isn’t sourced sustainably and responsibly,” the same way Spotify can exert pressure on labels with unfair contracts by saying “we want to make sure everyone gets paid fairly for their music getting paid”

        • CorganaEnglish
          1•1 year ago

          idk if I found out a store I frequent was knowingly selling food grown with slave labor yes I would have a big issue with them!