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      <image:caption>Uno de los objetivos principales de Spotify es brindar a "un millón de artistas creativos la oportunidad de vivir de su arte". Sin embargo, para generar un solo dólar en la plataforma, una canción debe transmitirse 314 veces. Para poner eso en perspectiva, se necesitarían 613 plays para generar suficientes ingresos para comprar una taza de café. Para pagar la renta mensual promedio estadounidense ($ 1,078), un artista necesita generar 338,492 transmisiones recurrentes mensuales. Y para ganar un salario mínimo de $ 15 / hora, se necesitarían 657,895 transmisiones cada mes. Le pedimos a Spotify que aumente la regalía promedio de transmisión de $ .0038 a un centavo por transmisión. Hacerlo les daría a los artistas una mejor oportunidad de ganarse la vida con su arte y comenzaría a restaurar la valoración pública de la música.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Justicia en Spotify - Sean transparentes</image:title>
      <image:caption>Los principales sellos discográficos poseen un gran porcentaje del catálogo de Spotify. Con su apalancamiento, pueden dictar los términos de sus propias regalías de transmisión y negociar sus propias estructuras de pago complejas. También les da un trato preferencial cuando se trata de listas de reproducción editoriales y algorítmicas, algo de lo que dependen todos los artistas. Hacemos un llamado a Spotify para que sea más transparente con sus finanzas, su plataforma y sus relaciones con los artistas. Hacer públicos todos los acuerdos con las principales discográficas y acabar con las prácticas que se asemejen al soborno. Además, instamos a Spotify a que dé el debido crédito a todos los ingenieros, músicos y trabajadores en todas las grabaciones.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Justicia en Spotify - Dejen  de luchar contra los artistas</image:title>
      <image:caption>Su propio director de economía, Will Page, ha declarado que cambiar la plataforma a un modelo centrado en el usuario sería demasiado difícil de implementar debido a los "importantes costos financieros para adoptar e implementar la distribución centrada en el usuario". Spotify debería luchar por los artistas que lo construyeron, en lugar de socavar aún más nuestro bienestar económico. Y a principios de 2020, Spotify junto con varios otros gigantes de la transmisión se dirigieron a los tribunales de circuito de DC para apelar el aumento del 44% en los pagos de regalías de compositores establecidos en 2018 por la Junta de derechos de autor. Spotify junto con otros gigantes del streaming han invertido millones de dólares en esta batalla legal para negar a los compositores lo que les corresponde. Spotify no puede legítimamente afirmar que es útil para los artistas si continúan luchando contra los compositores en los tribunales.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Justice At Spotify - Pay Us At Least One Cent Per Stream</image:title>
      <image:caption>One of Spotify’s core goals is to give “a million creative artists the opportunity to live off their art.” Yet, to generate a single dollar on the platform, a song needs to be streamed 263 times.  To put that in perspective, it would take 786 streams to generate enough revenue to buy an average cup of coffee. To pay the median American monthly rent ($1,078) an artist needs to generate 283,684 recurring streams monthly. And to earn $15/hr each month working full time, it would take 657,895 streams per band member. We are asking Spotify to raise the average streaming royalty from $.0038 to a penny per stream. Doing so would give artists a better chance at making a living from their art, and begin to restore the public valuation of music.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Major record labels own a huge percentage of Spotify’s catalog. With their leverage they are able to dictate the terms of their own streaming royalties and negotiate their own complex payment structures. It also gives them preferential treatment when it comes to editorial and algorithmic playlisting, something that all artists depend on. We are calling on Spotify to be more transparent with their finances, their platform, and their relationships with artists. Make all deals with major labels public, and to end practices that resemble payola. In addition, we urge Spotify to give due credit to all engineers, musicians and laborers on all recordings.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Justice At Spotify - Stop Fighting Artists</image:title>
      <image:caption>Spotify positions itself as the ultimate tool for artists to connect with and acquire new fans – but those aspirations frequently come in conflict with their bottom line and their business model. They ask artists to generate more and more content, saying “You can’t record music once every three to four years and think that’s going to be enough.”   Their own director of economics, Will Page, has stated that switching the platform to a user-centric model would be too difficult to implement because of “significant financial costs to adopting and implementing user-centric distribution.” Spotify should be fighting for the artists who built it, instead of further undercutting our economic well-being. And earlier in 2020, Spotify along with several other streaming giants took to the DC circuit courts to appeal the 44% increase in mechanical songwriter royalty payments set in 2018 by the Copyright Royalty Board.  Spotify along with other streaming giants have invested millions of dollars into this legal battle to deny songwriters their due. Spotify cannot legitimately claim to be helpful to artists if they continue to fight songwriters in court.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.</image:caption>
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