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Is we rise song copyrighted3/13/2024 (You can read it in full here.) The artists’ share is allegedly dwarfed by the “huge profits” earned by the platform. ![]() While global music consumption is at an all-time high–and YouTube is the number one source of music streams, boasting more listeners than Spotify and Apple Music combined–only a small amount of the revenue generated by that consumption is passed along to artists and musicians, according to the letter. That directly diminishes songwriters’ and artists’ earnings while allowing “major tech companies to grow and generate huge profits by creating ease of use for consumers to carry almost every recorded song in history in their pocket via a smartphone.” YouTube, Google, and Alphabet aren’t mentioned by name, but it’s obvious which “major tech companies” they’re talking about. In other words, artists say, YouTube profits off pirated copies of their music. The DMCA, says the letter, “is broken and no longer works for creators.” The letter takes aim specifically at Section 512 of the law, which gives user-generated content platforms “safe harbor” from liabilities related to copyright infringement.
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