Spotifythe largest music streaming platform, renewed its threat that it will stop operating in Uruguay If the Senate votes as the articles of the Accountability.
The Swedish company specifically rejects two articles, 284 and 285, which provide for a payment to be made to performers when their song is broadcast.
According to Spotifythis would entail greater expenses for the company, making its operations unviable in Uruguay. “We would pay twice for the same music. The business of connecting artists with fans will become unviable,” they told El País.
“Spotify would then have no choice but to stop being available in Uruguayto the detriment of artists and fans,” they stressed from the platform.
The Accountability project will be voted on in general tomorrow, a procedure that will go ahead with the votes of the government coalition. Then each article will be voted on and, before Friday, it will be voted on again. Deputies to be re-treated due to the incorporation of reassignments.
According to Spotifythanks to streaming, the music industry in Uruguay has grown 20% in 2022. Currently, he reported, he pays about 70% of every dollar he earns in income to record labels and publishers that represent and pay artists and songwriters.
Last week, the Latin American Internet Association (ALAI) joined the claim of Spotify and other platforms with respect to Accountability articles that seek to change the parameters of copyright.
In a text presented to the Senate, the ALAI pointed out that the articles questioned are inefficient and worrying, at the same time that they are unclear and ambiguous, “which makes the impacts they may cause unpredictable.” On the other hand, they accuse that the changes “will cause legal uncertainty in a country that has made legal certainties one of its calling cards.”
Source: Ambito
