Raúl Batlle, from the Colorado Party, presented the project and asked that it be treated urgently in Parliament.
He senator of the Colorado Party, Raúl Batlle, proposed to repeal the two articles of the Accountability that rejects Spotify and which led to the official announcement of the Swedish platform to leave the country in February, stating that the modifications imply that the firm “pays twice.”
Batlle thus rejected the government’s negotiations with Spotify and maintained that “it cannot be fixed with regulations, like erasing with my elbow what I wrote with my hand”, so he presented a bill to advance the repeal and asked that it be approved urgently in committees of the Senate and then be voted on in the Parliament.
The Colorado legislator recalled his disapproval during the vote on the articles and at a press conference added: “I spoke to each of the senators and tried to make them see reason. They defended those articles very vehemently, I don’t know why.” Now, he considered that the repeal It is key “to enable a broader and more timely discussion of these issues.”
The articles mentioned by the platform are the 329 and the 330 of the Accountability Law. The first of them points to financial compensation for the performer when a song is played on social networks and the internet. The other implies that “the agreements entered into by authors, composers, performers, directors and scriptwriters with respect to their power of public communication and making phonograms and audiovisual recordings available to the public” have the right to fair and equitable remuneration. .
“What is dangerous is the message we give to the world,” said Batlle.
When referring to the imminent departure of Spotify, Despite the official optimism, Batlle questioned the possibility of a decree so that the company stays. “We cannot give the image that first we put in place a law and then a decree so that the law does not work,” he argued.
Along these lines, the senator indicated that “the dangerous thing here is not that a platform leaves, what is dangerous is the message we give to the world” and highlighted: “The world is managed today with the platforms, the main actors in this chamber itself (the Senate) make funny videos on TikTok, statements in Twitter permanently”.
For all this, he stated: “We cannot go out and serve in the middle of a Surrender two articles like these, which are three lines, which are now in Presidency desperate trying to talk to Spotify Let’s see how they fix it.”
Source: Ambito
