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That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for taking the time to explain it. No one wants a monolith over an ecosystem!
In Australia in 2016 APRA (our main PRO) collected over $300 million AUD; the majority of which was paid to artists & writers represented by the Majors with heavy radio rotation.
So only artists with Major label backing and Radio benefit from most of those APRA collected funds and it also becomes the perfect shell game for the Majors to shut down innovation in the Indie market. Content strikes are an effective tool to kill creativity.
In 2014 amidst a growing backlash over their practices and over lack of transparency of them not giving money back to smaller Australian artists the ACCC (Australian Competition and Consumer Commission) came close to shutting APRA down.
http://apraamcos.com.au/media/3438/2014finaldetermination.pdf
In the ACCC determination they had serious concerns about APRA's operating practices, their collection methods, their costs, and the transparency of what APRA actually paid to artists. In particular they singled out a practice APRA had been engaging in where they forced terms in their previous license making it an exclusive - not non exclusive - license.
They also gave APRA a very specific warning about modifying their behaviour in terms of not continuing to attempt to become the sole operating monopoly over all Australian music revenue collection.
Point being that most PRO's are Voluntary Associations that pass themselves off as being Governmental authorities when they are not. So if Steemit artists give MSP a license to use their original songs in return for the exposure then isn't that enough given that you have your own platform?
Otherwise doesn't it become like Soundcloud all over again where the Major labels just go through doing content ID strikes against everyone to control the Medium regardless of merit.
In terms of ACR Cloud being the music fingerprinting service being used to protect MSP as it develops, the obvious concern there is how does their business model serve and fit in with the interests of a decentralised marketplace in terms of protecting Copyrights but not doing so in a way that abuses Musicians and attempts to shut down their innovation?
Honestly, I didn't really read that wall of text. I work 24-36 hours between 2-3 hour naps and I don't have the bandwidth for non-project related stuff much. But like I told you before, we play a ton of music from the steemit community, we also pay our legal licensing and royalties for commercial music. I'm not sure what you are driving at. We remain legal at all times, we use a monitoring bot service to help reconcile thousands of songs played each month to pay the required royalties for legal broadcasting to that the up to 84 unique DJs that will fill a full weekly schedule don't have to manually track their song plays and then force a giant compiling exercise on station staff every month.
ACRcloud offers literally dozens of applications, of which we use one for tracking plays.
We are full time broadcasting entity with global reach that runs 24/7/365. We maintain US based legal status as such and follow all required laws that correspond with that.
Thanks.
Sorry I know you are busy and you've done an amazing job building MSP. Thank you on behalf of the community.
I edited my comment down so it's less tedious. Apology about my random gene!