Article : Phantom Artists

I guess that’s why I use CDBaby, feels a little better. Not that anyone in their right mind would want any of my work 😁
 
Since my experience with Distrokid - where I lost huge amounts of money, I'm sticking pretty much everything I'm producing out there, just in case - and wierdly, even this gets played in bizarre places. The good thing is that shazam identifies them as mine, and even at $0.002 a stream or less. I'm making regular money. Lots of my stuff is actually written for people to use on videos - not wonderful cinematic stuff, but in-house training for people who make washing machines etc - and I keep the rights, they just use it. Most of the aggregators charge about fifty quid ish, a year for unlimited releases. I think it's actually worth that kind of money, because if somebody covered your song it would get flagged. A re-arrangement might not, but an out and out steal certainly would. In fact, if they just released your recording and did well, you'd get the money, not them.
 
spantini said:
An old bandmate sent me this today. I found it very interesting as well as pertinent. I often wonder if any of my posted music has been pirated in such a way.

www.nytimes.com

Their Songs Were Stolen by Phantom Artists. They Couldn’t Get Them Back.

Bad Dog, a group from D.C., was forced to take a crash course in streaming fraud, a shadowy realm that costs musicians $2 billion a year.
www.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com
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If they had Copyrighted their music then it would of been just a matter of a letter to whomever is allowing the music to post.
 
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