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Cue: We've been hearing a lot of concern from indie artists about not getting paid during the three-month trial period, which was never our intent. We never looked at it as not paying them. We had originally negotiated these deals based on paying them a higher royalty rate on an ongoing basis to compensate for this brief time. But when I woke up this morning and saw what Taylor had written, it really solidified that we needed to make a change. And so that's why we decided we will now pay artists during the trial period and we'll also keep the royalty rate at the higher rate.

You keep repeating that litany as if it meant anything. All it means is that APPLE WAS PAYING THE INDIES at 72% and Apple was keeping count during the 90day period. How many times do I have to tell you I have READ THE CONTRACT and it does not say what you claim it says???????? Apple was NOT going to steal anything from anyone or stiff anyone. If it had, no one would have signed them. This was all about the timing of the payments.

Cue: "We've been hearing a lot of concern from indie artists about not getting paid during the three-month trial period, which was never our intent."

That is very plain language. "Not getting paid during the three-month trial period is NOT not getting paid at all, which you keep insisting was the intent of Apple to steal a few hundred dollars from every indy artist who signed these contracts. . . and I keep telling you Apple would not and did not intend to do that, which is exactly what the contracts and Eddy Cue has explicitly stated. The contracts laid out WHEN the artists would be paid for their trial period streams which was after the trial period ended.

Your repeated and repeated posting of that paragraph will not change your misunderstanding of that intent. . . nor will it change the explicit wording in the contracts.