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As suspected, Spotify is using generic stock Muzak bought from production libraries so they don’t have to pay royalties to artists.

Not surprised, since CEO Daniel Ek refers to music as “content” and thinks it takes little effort to create. 🙄

This is one of the ways “content” hurts the arts and severs the relationship between artists & their audience.

https://harpers.org/archive/2025/01/the-ghosts-in-the-machine-liz-pelly-spotify-musicians/

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