The UK government has today announced a new Industry Transparency Code on Music Streaming, committed to increasing transparency on streaming practices.
  • Devdogg@lemmy.mlEnglish
    161·
    9 months ago

    Is this a good thing? I don’t hear many good things about the British gov’t lately.

    • ArghZombies@lemmy.worldEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      Honestly, I’m so jaded with this government that I just assume anything they announce is either just a disraction away from whatever ghastly thing they’re really doing or it’s some culturewar bait to stir up trouble.

    • andrew_bidlaw@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      8·
      9 months ago

      Streaming pushes big profits by confusing and underpaying artists, and I don’t see many problems with how the bill gets descripted. The problem is that companies have many ways to ease the blow: dropping artists, dropping a market or making a different policy for it alone. Or just pay fees if they’d figure out it’s easier.

  • Deceptichum@kbin.social
    4·
    9 months ago

    What a horrible article.

    It explains more about what the EU policy and mentions zero details of what this code entails, besides some companies saying it’s great news.