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Spotify claims that the issues with payouts stem from three “drains on the royalty pool” that have reached a tipping point. To alleviate these drains — artificial streams, “bad actors” attempting to game the system with “noise” recordings, and small payments that aren’t reaching artists — Spotify’s new policies include charging labels and distributors per track when seemingly artificial streaming is detected and restructured monetization eligibility.

Source: How Much Does Spotify Pay Per Stream? — Let’s Ask Spotify

In a highly anticipated appeal brief, officials at the Internet Archive argued that district court judge John G. Koeltl misunderstood the facts and misapplied the law in finding that the IA’s scanning and lending of print library books infringed publishers’ copyrights,  telling the U.S. Court of Appeals for Second Circuit the decision should be reversed.

Source: Internet Archive Seeks Reversal in Book Scanning Suit

Universal Music Group says fake AI ‘pre-release’ tracks are fetching between $5,000 and $30,000 apiece as part of elaborate scams. The Big Three label shed light upon the little-discussed and decidedly lucrative AI practice in a recent contribution to the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). Entitled “Artificial Intelligence in the Music Industry: Its Use by Pirates and Right Holders” and penned specifically by UMG VP of global content protection Graeme Grant.

Source: Universal Music Takes Aim At Fake AI Tracks Fetching Thousands

Spotify may have made it easier than ever for us to listen to an enormous trove of music, but it extracted so much money in doing so that it impoverished musicians. Now the company is turning its attention to books with a new offering. It will do the same thing to writers, whose audiobooks Spotify has begun streaming in a new and more damaging way.

Source: Opinion | Will Books Survive Spotify?