Lady Gaga ‘Poker Face’ rip off
p2pnet news view Music:- Spotify, and sites like it, are supposed to help sink music ‘pirates’, not mimic them.
Ask Lady Gaga what she thinks about that theory, promulgated by the corporate music industry.
Her Poker Face was for five months the most popular song on Spotify, says Sweden’s Expressen.se.
So she must have collected a tidy amount in royalties. Right?
Not.
STIM (Swedish Performing Rights Society), an, “incorporated association that is owned by the creators of music and their music publishers and that operates on their behalf,” paid her a grand total of 1,150 Kroner, about $167.
Quoting Expressen, TorrentFreak has Swedish rapper Dogge Doggelito (Douglas Léon,) stating »»»
It is totally sick. We musicians have no rights, you may not charge [for music] anymore.
Lady Gaga could`ve earned more money driving an illegal pirate taxi, he said.
Click here for a Google translation.
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Expressen.se – Lady Gaga tjänar 1150 kronor pÃ¥ Spotify, November 20, 2009
STIM – Swedish `music rights` ass: same old dirge, April 23, 2009
TorrentFreak – Lady Gaga Earns Slightly More From Spotify Than Piracy, November 21, 2009
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November 22nd, 2009 at 2:42 pm
That’s just a payment to STIM, like when you listen to a song on the radio. They also have to pay the label for the track so unless you know what that payment was maybe best not to jump and call it a ripoff? Universal, her label, said they get more money from Spotify in Sweden then they do from iTunes.
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:12 pm
Any way you want to look at it it is a rip off
November 22nd, 2009 at 3:17 pm
@ Jason.
You’re right. I’ve changed the headline from Spotify rips off Lady Gaga.
But the poster above is correct too.
Cheers!
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:30 am
so lady gaga would have made more if she flipped burgers for Mc Donalds….
interesting
November 23rd, 2009 at 2:49 am
This is just disgusting. Music has no value anymore and it is only a matter of time before they completely devalue it all together. If you are not a super big artists you’ll be better off performing at the bus stop for change than going into the music biz as an artists.
November 23rd, 2009 at 6:23 am
Still – I wouldn’t mind a $167 bonus… after all, she would not have got this at all without Spotify!
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:03 am
If even the labels won’t pay artists, I think that means it’s a job that calls for SUPERFAN!
FAC, still led by old fogey’s with almost as little clue as the labels, seems to think they just need to get their copyrights back and then they can send the boys round to collect from any commercial use. That’s what FAC thinks disintermediation means.
Nope, the artist, even as a collective, is too weedy to wield copyright. And the business model of extortion as a means of collecting revenue is dying out, not waiting for renewed vigour from a younger generation and the leadership of an enthusiastic pirate finder general.
The artist’s only hope is their fans, and the artist’s superfan will set the standard for others to follow.
Disintermediation is not only about bypassing the label and collection societies, it’s about bypassing copyright, it’s about dealing with your fans directly. No laws against sharing. No threats or fear. Just a direct relationship and a handshake on a good deal between friends.
November 23rd, 2009 at 8:24 am
Of course spotify rips off artists. Spotify is an RIAA entity. Folks need to know that!
November 23rd, 2009 at 10:56 pm
They chose to sign major label contracts. These are the consequences to that mistake.
November 26th, 2009 at 4:45 am
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December 11th, 2009 at 9:02 am
If even the labels won’t pay artists, I think that means it’s a job that calls for SUPERFAN!
FAC, still led by old fogey’s with almost as little clue as the labels, seems to think they just need to get their copyrights back and then they can send the boys round to collect from any commercial use. That’s what FAC thinks disintermediation means.
Nope, the artist, even as a collective, is too weedy to wield copyright. And the business model of extortion as a means of collecting revenue is dying out, not waiting for renewed vigour from a younger generation and the leadership of an enthusiastic pirate finder general.
The artist’s only hope is their fans, and the artist’s superfan will set the standard for others to follow.
Disintermediation is not only about bypassing the label and collection societies, it’s about bypassing copyright, it’s about dealing with your fans directly. No laws against sharing. No threats or fear. Just a direct relationship and a handshake on a good deal between friends.