...but they drag their feet on the ILLEGAL reproduction of material without payment to copyright with owners when technology exists to auto-flag such material?
You get the social media you deserve.
Posted on 03/30/2021 5:08:43 PM PDT by DoodleBob
The U.S. music industry’s leading trade organizations collectively slammed Twitter and its CEO Jack Dorsey for not taking down copyrighted material fast enough in a letter to Congress ahead of Thursday’s (Mar 25) hearing on disinformation on social media platforms. Dorsey, Google CEO Sundar Pichai and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg spoke during the hearing.
The letter called out Twitter’s “failure to meet the most basic standards of responsible moderation with respect to other illegal activity — specifically, the rampant theft of creative works on its platform,” as the groups asked the Subcommittee on Communications and Technology and the Subcommittee on Consumer Protection and Commerce to question Dorsey on Twitter’s lackluster moderation during the hearing.
The letter was signed by the Recording Academy, the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), the National Music Publishers’ Association (NMPA), the Songwriters of North America (SONA), the American Association of Independent Music (A2IM), the Artist Rights Alliance Music Artists Coalition (MAC), and the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI).
While Dorsey — who is also the co-founder and CEO of Square, who recently acquired a majority stake in Tidal — may be the new owner of a music streaming service, Twitter’s relationship with the music industry has soured over the years. Once beloved across the industry, Twitter is quickly becoming a pariah, according to multiple sources, with its refusals to negotiate licensing deals, lack of a Content ID-type system to identify and remove infringing content and its seeming inability to police copyrighted content on its platform, which Billboard reported on in January.(emphasis added)
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...but they drag their feet on the ILLEGAL reproduction of material without payment to copyright with owners when technology exists to auto-flag such material?
You get the social media you deserve.
That was one of Trump’s biggest failings.
He was a big factor in making Tweater popular and then they banished him.
Monday morning quarterbacking but Trump should have launched his own platform before running for POTUS.
But that's pretty much what it is, a manufactured product.
That has very little to do with music.
Copyright laws are like immigration laws.
More like a weak suggestion.
No. Trump needed to invade the Left’s favorite virtual space. Made an amazing path into their heads. A separate site would have been sidelined as unimportant.
It would save time to hold hearings on what these outfits do that isn’t illegal, immoral, or shady.
We’re in a Soviet-like situation.
Big tech, big biz, big media, and big govt are all in progressive lockstep.
Somebody has to build systems that cater to the 75 mil who voted for Trump.
Yep.
We’re in a Soviet-like situation.
Big tech, big biz, big media, and big govt are all in progressive lockstep.
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Nothing progressive about a Soviet style system, that’s regressive. Back to another century.
/bingo
The same Music Industry who thought if they ignored MP3 technology it would go away!
Gab is worth checking out.
Gab is a pretty good place once you mute or block the trolls and crackpots.
Now, yes.
For years ago, no.
Only the music production (formerly record) companies are allowed to take the artists' creative work and give them nothing or almost nothing. Second level thievery is not allowed.
That said, no doubt many artists get/got rooked with awful recoup formulas, and contracts that basically keep them "in hock" to the label. And, from what I've seen, many musicians lack basic business skills. You can't buy a home without a realtor or a lawyer but there is not control against signing away your publishing.
The destruction of recorded music as a revenue source (only 41,000 artist out of the millions on Spotify made $10k or more last year, and that required at least 2.5MM streams) has lead to 360-degree deals, where "the man" can now take ALL of your income streams (merch, ticket sales, album sales, endorsements, sales of vital organs) in exchange for a thousand-dollar "advance" (read: loan).
Artists would be best advised to DIY.
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