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“The Great Big Spotify Scam” exposed in Music Business Worldwide this week highlights one of the major problems with the music streaming licensing model – namely the risk of a disconnection between the artist and the fan who supports them. The MMF’s Dissecting the Digital Dollar report explains in detail how, under the current licensing model, the entirety of a listener’s subscription money goes into one central pot which is then divided up between the total number of listens and then paid out to the respective rights holders. Most music fans, I would wager, would be blissfully unaware of this. I’m sure they’d make the incredible assumption that their hard-earned subscription is being paid to the artists they listen to most.

Read the full post on Medium.