Slipknotin Corey Taylor: ”Musiikin striimauksesta tulisi artistien saada isommat korvaukset”

Yhdysvaltalaisen metalliyhtye Slipknotin nokkamies Corey Taylor on paljastanut tuoreessa The Irish Timesin haastattelussa olevansa erittäin pettynyt tapaan, jolla striimauspalvelut maksavat korvauksia artisteille musiikin striimauksesta. Coreylta haastattelussa kysyttäessä pystyisikö Slipknot elämään pelkillä striimauksilla mies kertoi, että todennäköisesti pystyisi, mikäli korvaukset eivät olisi niin mitättömiä, mitä ne nykypäivänä ovat. Taylor pohti aihetta sekä avasi striimauksista saatavia tuloja seuraavasti:

”You could if the streaming system wasn’t set up the way it is. You are being paid less than pennies. In the United States, they have passed the legislation (the Music Modernization Act 2018) but it is being appealed. I am hoping that it will be struck down. If the streaming systems paid more online with how publishing in radio pays — people could make a living.”

”I have had friends of mine who have had to retire, and they are popular bands, because they can’t make a living. Mid-card bands and lower, it is hard for them. It almost pays better to play the local pub and do the door deal. You make more money doing that than making an album. Labels don’t take the same chances but they are taking the lion’s share of the money because of the way it is set up.

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”Until the artist is paid fairly, it is going to be a constant fucking battle,” he added. ”I saw this coming years ago. I haven’t got a problem with streaming. I have got a problem with how these streaming services rip off the artist and I’ll say that until the day I die.”

Kysyttäessä Corey Taylorilta kuinka paljon miljoonasta striimistä artistit sitten rikastuvat, kertoo Taylor seuraavaa:

”The lowest rate is YouTube. A million streams on YouTube is 0.04 per cent of a penny. On a million streams you get $400 and that’s just me doing shitty math in my head. People can’t live on that and there’s not a lot of people who get these numbers. The majority of this goes to the record label anyway. The streaming services are not willing to pay the talents who write the songs and makes the music and yet they are sitting on billions of dollars. They are buying whole blocks of buildings and then taking over floors in there and yet they don’t want to pay the people who made the money for them. It’s insane. It’s tough all over in a lot of ways. Something has to change. I don’t know what that will be.”

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