Hey guys, if you think that getting yourself out there is a big thing, it can be... but it's also the best places to get screwed over. Here is the latest scan that puts all your money in someone else's pocket:
Online music companies screwing over musicians!
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Yeah I can’t see how that would benefit the artist. Seems like a way to devalue one’s own work.
Currently the recordings I make I upload to my YouTube channel and nothing else. I looked into several companies that offer services to distribute these recordings on different streaming platforms (like Spotify and others). I was not looking for a way to make money, but I was not willing to actually pay any money to the distributer or to give away the rights to my music. Nor would I allow them to go after my music on YouTube and have it taken down there. My conclusion of this search was that it is hopeless. I also read many reviews by people who did sign up with these distributers and the stories are horror stories to say the least. If I signed up to one of these services, not only would I never get paid any money, but they create an "ID" for each song and then the song will match my YouTube submission and they will have my YouTube video taken down because they are now "protecting" the rights to my recording. Also, they can refuse my recordings without any explanation and not let me protest that in any way.
So in short... I currently do not know any easy and safe way to get your music onto todays streaming platforms. If anyone knows such a safe and easy and free way... let all of us know, please!
So in short... I currently do not know any easy and safe way to get your music onto todays streaming platforms. If anyone knows such a safe and easy and free way... let all of us know, please!
The chase for the almighty dollar has brought out to scums of humanity and made theft easy in the online community.
Paul, why don't you reach out to the author of the above video...not only is she a musician, she is a lawyer too.
Paul, why don't you reach out to the author of the above video...not only is she a musician, she is a lawyer too.
Frankly, I cannot watch this for extended amounts of time because the framing is constantly jumping around. Gives me a headache.
My understanding is that the only way of getting our music on Spotify is via one of the publishing companies. I have one friend who uses CD-Baby and says he's never received any royalties. Another uses DistroKid and seems happy with them. I understand once you have the ID there is a way of tagging existing YouTube videos with the ID and then they won't be taken down, they'll be monetised with the money going to you via your distributor.
I've been looking at this for a while, mainly as a way to stop my original music being stolen, but I've not yet found any options that look particularly good.
Good to know that you can tag existing YouTube videos with the proper ID.
Not receiving any royalties is the least of my worries. I don't believe my music will reach enough downloads to make any significant amount of money from royalties. I am more worried about my music losing the "Creative Commons Attribution" license when I post it through a publishing company. And I also don't want my music to be taken down because of illegal claims by others. On YouTube about 10% of my posted recordings get flagged wrongly for copyright claims, but at least YouTube has a simple procedure for objecting to the claims and so far all the claims have either been rejected because the claimants released it or because the claimant did not react within 30 days. Unfortunately YouTube does nothing at all to stop these companies from trying false claims all the time. After reading reviews of publishing companies for Spotify and other streaming platforms I'm afraid they will just take down streams and not honer any protest about false claims.
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