The Uruguayan Society of Interpreters (SUDEI) called production companies, record labels and platforms to discuss the departure of Spotify of Uruguay, announced this week, with the objective of reaching an agreement regarding the articles approved in the Accountability for which the Swedish company decided to leave the country.
Sudei was one of the promoters of the articles that caused Spotify has made the decision to leave Uruguay starting next year. The Swedish company announced this week that, starting in January, it will begin a progressive exit that will end in February due to the lack of clarity in the articles approved in the Accountability.
Faced with this, the expert on the subject and former secretary of the Copyright Council of the Ministry of Education, Martha Caviglia, assured that “it is a right of the interpreters to be able charge for their executions on digital platforms.” To which he added that “this is not against digital platforms, but rather it is an administrative redistribution of what is already paid for these uses and these reproductions,” while ensuring that the new law does not imply additional expenses for Spotify.
The position of the producers
Representatives of several Uruguayan production companies They were against the departure of the Swedish company because it provided opportunities to artists who were able to make their music viral through the application.
“Many people without any support have uploaded music, distributed it Spotify, has gone viral and that has changed his life, so the people who are promoting this are causing the opportunities of many new artists to fall,” he commented. Nicolas Estadesfrom NES productions to Telenoche.
The government seeks a middle ground
The senator of National Party (PN), Jorge Gandini, called to “find a middle ground” to prevent Spotify leaves the country. The white legislator, one of the promoters of the initiatives that were approved in the Parliament and rejected by the streaming music application, he spoke out in favor of reaching an agreement “that does not charge double Spotify” and clarified that there is still time, since the approved Accountability will come into effect on January 1st.
The problematic articles are 284 and 285, which establishes that performers must charge for the reproduction of music on digital platforms, something that does not happen today and a claim supported by Sudei.
Gandini considered that deputies and senators left “all possibilities” open in the law, and then ensured that “Spotify You can’t leave the country, it would be terrible for the musicians themselves. “Today records are not sold in record stores, they are uploaded to these platforms and the money comes from there. Therefore, we have to find a point of agreement,” he insisted.
Therefore, the leader of the National Party He was inclined to dialogue and highlighted: “We are waiting for the president to come (on tour of China), “He was the one who encouraged this regulation to defend the rights of musicians.”
In that direction, the senator said that the law must be “sufficiently flexible and gradual” so that there is a “discriminate” payment and added: “The law provides a framework, the regulatory decree could order the agreement and that everyone is relatively compliant “.
Source: Ambito
