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   Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 12:05:37 JST Tito Swineflu

   My wife is going through apple music, and all of a sudden Bumblescrump, 15, Crimpshrine, Jack Acid and The Gods Hate Kansas come on. It's cool that they have obscure music, but I know for a fact that they don't own the rights or have an agreement with the owner to stream some of that stuff. What's up with that?

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     Phil in SF (kingrat@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 12:05:36 JST Phil in SF

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     @tito_swineflu the music modernization act created a compulsory license scheme for streaming services. they don't have to ask. they just have to pay the fees to a non profit that will distribute the royalties. I'm sure there's a lot more nuance than that, but that's what i remember from the news at the time.

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     Tito Swineflu (tito_swineflu@sfba.social)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 12:13:05 JST Tito Swineflu

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     • Phil in SF

     @kingrat wow, mastodon is the best place for finding answers to obscure questions, thanks!
     Still, it seems sort of shitty. No non-profit in the world could find the surviving rights holders for this music to pay them their 15 cents of royalties. Apple gets to squat on millions of songs behind a pay wall. I guess that's just the way it's always worked.