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  1. Spotify are a pack of hypocrites. They started 'their' catalogue by downloading music from The Pirate Bay. What fucking gall to treat musicians and songwriters as slaves and then attack Anna's Archive.

    torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta

    #spotify #BrokenRecord #UMAW #WorkerRights #hypocrisy #capitalism

  2. Spotify are a pack of hypocrites. They started 'their' catalogue by downloading music from The Pirate Bay. What fucking gall to treat musicians and songwriters as slaves and then attack Anna's Archive.

    torrentfreak.com/spotifys-beta

    #spotify #BrokenRecord #UMAW #WorkerRights #hypocrisy #capitalism

  3. "Talking via video from his apartment in Astoria, Queens, DeFrancesco sounds both resilient and realistic, defiant and weary. The battle against the powers that be is constant, arduous, and often thankless. But if we stop, they win. Everyone else loses. Why would we let that happen without a fight?"

    hearingthings.co/umaw-is-chang

    #Music #Musicians #NewMusic #UMAW #US #Independent #MusicIndustry

  4. "Talking via video from his apartment in Astoria, Queens, DeFrancesco sounds both resilient and realistic, defiant and weary. The battle against the powers that be is constant, arduous, and often thankless. But if we stop, they win. Everyone else loses. Why would we let that happen without a fight?"

    hearingthings.co/umaw-is-chang

    #Music #Musicians #NewMusic #UMAW #US #Independent #MusicIndustry

  5. It appears that DistroKid is engaging in union-busting. From UMAW:

    "On Monday, Oct. 21st, DistroKid placed 37 employees, roughly 25% of its staff, on administrative leave, pending layoffs. This includes the entire full-time customer support staff and most of their quality assurance engineers. The employees who were placed on leave were all members of the DistroKid union, which had won its election in April with strong numbers."

    #DistroKid #UnionBusting #UMAW

    actionnetwork.org/petitions/mu

  6. It appears that DistroKid is engaging in union-busting. From UMAW:

    "On Monday, Oct. 21st, DistroKid placed 37 employees, roughly 25% of its staff, on administrative leave, pending layoffs. This includes the entire full-time customer support staff and most of their quality assurance engineers. The employees who were placed on leave were all members of the DistroKid union, which had won its election in April with strong numbers."

    #DistroKid #UnionBusting #UMAW

    actionnetwork.org/petitions/mu

  7. ATTN ALL musicians and music lovers! 💛🎸
    I’m part of UMAW, a collective working to unionize musicians for fair pay, tour stability, sex & gender equality, + more.
    We just made headway w/ the Living Wage For Musicians Act, sponsored by reps Rashida Tlaib and Bowman that’ll get artists fair streaming royalties!
    If you believe that musicians deserve a living wage, please read and sign the petition here: shorturl.at/auL23 and share.

    #music #union #musician #umaw #ravenation #mastodon #lgtbq

  8. ATTN ALL musicians and music lovers! 💛🎸
    I’m part of UMAW, a collective working to unionize musicians for fair pay, tour stability, sex & gender equality, + more.
    We just made headway w/ the Living Wage For Musicians Act, sponsored by reps Rashida Tlaib and Bowman that’ll get artists fair streaming royalties!
    If you believe that musicians deserve a living wage, please read and sign the petition here: shorturl.at/auL23 and share.

    #music #union #musician #umaw #ravenation #mastodon #lgtbq

  9. Friends, if you love music and live in the US, please tell your representatives this bill needs to be passed as written: weareumaw.org/news/make-stream
    #Music #UMAW #streaming

  10. Friends, if you love music and live in the US, please tell your representatives this bill needs to be passed as written: weareumaw.org/news/make-stream
    #Music #UMAW #streaming

  11. Living Wage for Musicians Act. Have a look and consider adding your name to the petition.

    weareumaw.org/news/make-stream

    #music #musodon #umaw

  12. See the following post by @donutshoes for just how grave this robbery is.

    I find it unethical and despicable. Long-term, it doesn’t even make economically sense for Spotify.

    If anything, the revenue model should do the opposite and give diminishing returns for each stream, so there’s an incentive to produce more music for the platform.

    social.bitwig.community/@donut

    #UMAW #JusticeAtSpotify #Spotify #Music #Musicians #Demands #Fair #Economics #UnitedMusiciansAndAlliedWorkers

  13. See the following post by @donutshoes for just how grave this robbery is.

    I find it unethical and despicable. Long-term, it doesn’t even make economically sense for Spotify.

    If anything, the revenue model should do the opposite and give diminishing returns for each stream, so there’s an incentive to produce more music for the platform.

    social.bitwig.community/@donut

    #UMAW #JusticeAtSpotify #Spotify #Music #Musicians #Demands #Fair #Economics #UnitedMusiciansAndAlliedWorkers

  14. See the following post by @donutshoes for just how grave this robbery is.

    I find it unethical and despicable. Long-term, it doesn’t even make economically sense for Spotify.

    If anything, the revenue model should do the opposite and give diminishing returns for each stream, so there’s an incentive to produce more music for the platform.

    social.bitwig.community/@donut

    #UMAW #JusticeAtSpotify #Spotify #Music #Musicians #Demands #Fair #Economics #UnitedMusiciansAndAlliedWorkers

  15. See the following post by @donutshoes for just how grave this robbery is.

    I find it unethical and despicable. Long-term, it doesn’t even make economically sense for Spotify.

    If anything, the revenue model should do the opposite and give diminishing returns for each stream, so there’s an incentive to produce more music for the platform.

    social.bitwig.community/@donut

    #UMAW #JusticeAtSpotify #Spotify #Music #Musicians #Demands #Fair #Economics #UnitedMusiciansAndAlliedWorkers

  16. See the following post by @donutshoes for just how grave this robbery is.

    I find it unethical and despicable. Long-term, it doesn’t even make economically sense for Spotify.

    If anything, the revenue model should do the opposite and give diminishing returns for each stream, so there’s an incentive to produce more music for the platform.

    social.bitwig.community/@donut

    #UMAW #JusticeAtSpotify #Spotify #Music #Musicians #Demands #Fair #Economics #UnitedMusiciansAndAlliedWorkers

  17. Music workers create all of the enormous wealth Spotify accumulates for its CEO, its investors, and the major labels. But we artists continue to be underpaid, misled, and otherwise exploited by the company.

    As Spotify’s valuation soars, we have seen no increase in our streaming payments. The company’s closed-door contracts and payola schemes ensure that only musicians already on top with extensive resources can succeed on the platform.

    As COVID 19 economically devastates music workers everywhere, it’s even clearer that Spotify’s existing model is counter to the needs of the vast majority of artists.

    Sign the petition!

    weareumaw.org/justice-at-spoti

    #UMAW #JusticeAtSpotify #Spotify #Music #Musicians #Demands #Fair #Economics #UnitedMusiciansAndAlliedWorkers

    (Via @mirlo and @donutshoes)

  18. Music workers create all of the enormous wealth Spotify accumulates for its CEO, its investors, and the major labels. But we artists continue to be underpaid, misled, and otherwise exploited by the company.

    As Spotify’s valuation soars, we have seen no increase in our streaming payments. The company’s closed-door contracts and payola schemes ensure that only musicians already on top with extensive resources can succeed on the platform.

    As COVID 19 economically devastates music workers everywhere, it’s even clearer that Spotify’s existing model is counter to the needs of the vast majority of artists.

    Sign the petition!

    weareumaw.org/justice-at-spoti

    #UMAW #JusticeAtSpotify #Spotify #Music #Musicians #Demands #Fair #Economics #UnitedMusiciansAndAlliedWorkers

    (Via @mirlo and @donutshoes)

  19. Music workers create all of the enormous wealth Spotify accumulates for its CEO, its investors, and the major labels. But we artists continue to be underpaid, misled, and otherwise exploited by the company.

    As Spotify’s valuation soars, we have seen no increase in our streaming payments. The company’s closed-door contracts and payola schemes ensure that only musicians already on top with extensive resources can succeed on the platform.

    As COVID 19 economically devastates music workers everywhere, it’s even clearer that Spotify’s existing model is counter to the needs of the vast majority of artists.

    Sign the petition!

    weareumaw.org/justice-at-spoti

    #UMAW #JusticeAtSpotify #Spotify #Music #Musicians #Demands #Fair #Economics #UnitedMusiciansAndAlliedWorkers

    (Via @mirlo and @donutshoes)

  20. Music workers create all of the enormous wealth Spotify accumulates for its CEO, its investors, and the major labels. But we artists continue to be underpaid, misled, and otherwise exploited by the company.

    As Spotify’s valuation soars, we have seen no increase in our streaming payments. The company’s closed-door contracts and payola schemes ensure that only musicians already on top with extensive resources can succeed on the platform.

    As COVID 19 economically devastates music workers everywhere, it’s even clearer that Spotify’s existing model is counter to the needs of the vast majority of artists.

    Sign the petition!

    weareumaw.org/justice-at-spoti

    #UMAW #JusticeAtSpotify #Spotify #Music #Musicians #Demands #Fair #Economics #UnitedMusiciansAndAlliedWorkers

    (Via @mirlo and @donutshoes)

  21. Music workers create all of the enormous wealth Spotify accumulates for its CEO, its investors, and the major labels. But we artists continue to be underpaid, misled, and otherwise exploited by the company.

    As Spotify’s valuation soars, we have seen no increase in our streaming payments. The company’s closed-door contracts and payola schemes ensure that only musicians already on top with extensive resources can succeed on the platform.

    As COVID 19 economically devastates music workers everywhere, it’s even clearer that Spotify’s existing model is counter to the needs of the vast majority of artists.

    Sign the petition!

    weareumaw.org/justice-at-spoti

    #UMAW #JusticeAtSpotify #Spotify #Music #Musicians #Demands #Fair #Economics #UnitedMusiciansAndAlliedWorkers

    (Via @mirlo and @donutshoes)

  22. Any other #UMAW members here on Mastodon? If not, what do I need to do to convince more musicians to join up? 2024 is going to be a big year for the “United Musicians and Allied Workers” and I'm really inspired by what’s planned for the next couple months.
    #Music #Musodon #MusicProduction #IndependentMusician weareumaw.org

  23. Any other #UMAW members here on Mastodon? If not, what do I need to do to convince more musicians to join up? 2024 is going to be a big year for the “United Musicians and Allied Workers” and I'm really inspired by what’s planned for the next couple months.
    #Music #Musodon #MusicProduction #IndependentMusician weareumaw.org

  24. @donutshoes

    Musicians who'll be adversely impacted by this change can check out the advocacy #UMAW has been doing.

    Here are the demands they've pushed with their #JusticeAtSpotify campaign:

    weareumaw.org/justice-at-spoti

  25. @donutshoes

    Musicians who'll be adversely impacted by this change can check out the advocacy #UMAW has been doing.

    Here are the demands they've pushed with their #JusticeAtSpotify campaign:

    weareumaw.org/justice-at-spoti

  26. One stat you won’t find in your Spotify Wrapped is how much artists are paid for all that listening on the platform.

    The max possible in 2023 is $0.003 per stream. And in 2024, Spotify will stop paying anything AT ALL for 2/3 of the tracks on the platform.

    #music #art #spotify #umaw

  27. One stat you won’t find in your Spotify Wrapped is how much artists are paid for all that listening on the platform.

    The max possible in 2023 is $0.003 per stream. And in 2024, Spotify will stop paying anything AT ALL for 2/3 of the tracks on the platform.

    #music #art #spotify #umaw

  28. Today it's #BandcampFriday! The day when artists whose tracks & albums you buy on #Bandcamp get 93% revenue share instead of 82% on every other day.
    What's your choice today?
    #UMAW #Spotify #MakeSpotifyPay #Music

  29. Today it's #BandcampFriday! The day when artists whose tracks & albums you buy on #Bandcamp get 93% revenue share instead of 82% on every other day.
    What's your choice today?
    #UMAW #Spotify #MakeSpotifyPay #Music

  30. TODAY in New York, 12 to 3PM: Rally to demand fair pay from Penske Media, owner of SXSW, with United Musicians and Allied Workers. Immediately after the protest at Penske, join the WGA picket at Paramount offices.

    We’ll be there.
    RSVP: actionnetwork.org/events/fair-

    #UMAW #WGA #WGAEast #WGAStrike #WGAStrong #BandCampUnited #union #labor #solidarity