I'm kind of not sure though, because they're a really gross company, and I'm looking into their terms of service and it seems more and more like they're even worse than other big music platforms.
One really big example of their sketchy terms of service is this part: "You grant Spotify a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, perpetual (or, in jurisdictions where this is not permitted, for a term equal to the duration of the Agreements plus twenty (20) years), irrevocable, fully paid, worldwide license to use, reproduce, make available to the public (e.g. perform or display), publish, translate, modify, create derivative works from, and distribute any of your User Content in connection with the Service through any medium, whether alone or in combination with other Content or materials, in any manner and by any means, method or technology, whether now known or hereafter created. Aside from the rights specifically granted herein, you retain ownership of all rights, including intellectual property rights, in the User Content. Where applicable and permitted under applicable law, you also agree to waive and not enforce any "moral rights" or equivalent rights, such as your right to be identified as the author of any User Content, including Feedback, and your right to object to derogatory treatment of such User Content."
I'm not sure about the other parts, but it looks like even youtube doesn't have the thing about waiving your moral rights. (I'm not super knowledgeable about this sort of thing (I'm mostly just looking at a site called tos;dr), so correct me if I'm wrong.)
But at the same time, they're the biggest streaming service and getting music to a wide audience is an uphill battle even if you don't limit the platforms you use, and it's probably going to be significantly harder if I don't put my stuff on the biggest streaming platform in the world. It's also probably good if it's as easy as possible for people to listen to my music, and spotify is probably the most problematic giant music platform, but most, if not all, of these giant platforms are very problematic anyway.
Tldr: spotify is problematic, I think even worse than other big music platforms, but I feel like I kind of need to put my stuff on there, so I'm probably going to bite the bullet and start pretty soon.
What are y'all's thoughts? I made a poll but I'd love to hear your opinions in the comments as well!
Nick, The NRG
Nick, The NRG
Would you be interested in live videos where I improvize on otamatone or slide guitar over a microtonal backing track?
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I'm thinking about putting my stuff on spotify.
I'm kind of not sure though, because they're a really gross company, and I'm looking into their terms of service and it seems more and more like they're even worse than other big music platforms.
One really big example of their sketchy terms of service is this part: "You grant Spotify a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, perpetual (or, in jurisdictions where this is not permitted, for a term equal to the duration of the Agreements plus twenty (20) years), irrevocable, fully paid, worldwide license to use, reproduce, make available to the public (e.g. perform or display), publish, translate, modify, create derivative works from, and distribute any of your User Content in connection with the Service through any medium, whether alone or in combination with other Content or materials, in any manner and by any means, method or technology, whether now known or hereafter created. Aside from the rights specifically granted herein, you retain ownership of all rights, including intellectual property rights, in the User Content. Where applicable and permitted under applicable law, you also agree to waive and not enforce any "moral rights" or equivalent rights, such as your right to be identified as the author of any User Content, including Feedback, and your right to object to derogatory treatment of such User Content."
I'm not sure about the other parts, but it looks like even youtube doesn't have the thing about waiving your moral rights. (I'm not super knowledgeable about this sort of thing (I'm mostly just looking at a site called tos;dr), so correct me if I'm wrong.)
But at the same time, they're the biggest streaming service and getting music to a wide audience is an uphill battle even if you don't limit the platforms you use, and it's probably going to be significantly harder if I don't put my stuff on the biggest streaming platform in the world. It's also probably good if it's as easy as possible for people to listen to my music, and spotify is probably the most problematic giant music platform, but most, if not all, of these giant platforms are very problematic anyway.
Tldr: spotify is problematic, I think even worse than other big music platforms, but I feel like I kind of need to put my stuff on there, so I'm probably going to bite the bullet and start pretty soon.
What are y'all's thoughts? I made a poll but I'd love to hear your opinions in the comments as well!
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Nick, The NRG
Gonna have a music video out hoooooooooopefully today! And hoooooooooooopefully this doesn't jinx it xD
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I can apparently do community posts now (I'm guessing because I reached 500 subscribers), so yeah. Stuff!
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