CMU’s Andy Malt and Chris Cooke review key events in music and the music business from the last week. On this edition, competition law expert (as well as musician and label owner) Amelia Fletcher's letter to Spotify boss Daniel Ek about the streaming service's plan for a two-tier royalty system, and the rickrolling takedown battle between two stream-ripping platforms.
SECTION TIMES
01: Spotify (00:04:27)
02: Stream-ripping (00:19:56)
(Timings may be slightly different due to adverts)
STORIES DISCUSSED THIS WEEK
Spotify two-tier payment “discriminatory and exploitative” says competition law expert
Competition law expert Amelia Fletcher has written to Spotify boss Daniel Ek expressing concern about the plan to introduce a threshold below which tracks will not receive any royalties when they are streamed
Chris Cooke
Stream-ripper gets court order to identify who is behind rick-rolling Google takedown notices
Stream-ripper Y2Mate last week got a court order forcing Google to share information about who has been issuing copyright takedown notices against its website - it suspects a competitor has been issuing takedowns to negatively impact its Google ranking
Chris Cooke
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Competition law expert Amelia Fletcher writes to Daniel Ek
The following letter has been sent to Spotify CEO Daniel Ek by Amelia Fletcher, who is Professor of Competition Policy at Norwich Business School at the University of East Anglia. She is also a musician and songwriter, and co-founder of independent label Skep Wax Records.
CMU Editorial
Read Amelia Fletcher's full letter to Daniel Ek
