Underreporting and No Accountability: Another Reason Streaming Royalties are So Small

Reblogged from MUSIC • TECHNOLOGY • POLICY:

We're all mad here...

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, by Lewis Carroll

The following are my initial comments to the current proposed rulemaking at the Copyright Office that would, in my view, give digital streaming services a pass on transparency and accountability for their extraordinarily low royalty payments.  The reporting on the ridiculously low royalty payments from services like Spotify assume one key fact that is not in evidence--that the royalty, however low, …

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Remember when we asked you to comment on the Copyright Office rulemaking for compulsory (or "statutory") mechanical licenses? We'll be posting some of the comments that did go up on the Copyright Office site starting with this one from Chris Castle at MusicTechPolicy