Tech Won't Save Us

How Spotify is Built On Artist Exploitation w/ Liz Pelly

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Paris Marx is joined by Liz Pelly to discuss how the Spotify model of streaming music continues a long trend of exploitation in the music industry and why musicians need to organize around a vision for a different world of music.

Liz Pelly is a freelance writer and critic who has spent the past decade working with community arts spaces. She is also a contributing editor and columnist at The Baffler. Follow Liz on Twitter as @lizpelly.

Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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Also mentioned in this episode:

  • Liz’s work looks at many aspects of Spotify, including the model it’s pushing on musicians and increasingly on podcasters
  • Paris has written about how consolidation and the emergence of streaming is having similarly negative effects in film and television
  • Naomi Klein explains how New Deal arts programs funded 225,000 musical performances which reached 150 million Americans — and much more
  • Cherie Hu tweeted a diagram showing how different streaming and music companies have stakes in one another
  • The Verge obtained Sony Music’s contract with Spotify
  • How Galaxy 500 and Pavement had random songs take off on Spotify
  • Spotify CEO says artists need to record music more frequently
  • Henderson Cole’s proposal for an American Music Library
  • The Union of Musicians and Allied Workers launched the Justice at Spotify campaign

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