Guy Morrow

Although the disputes between some superstars and Spotify have ended in favour of the Swedish streaming service, Swift & Yorke have nevertheless revealed weaknesses in the business model of music streaming from the point of view of the artists. The main beneficiaries of the streaming economy are the music majors, and little falls to the…

In the US, the advance of music streaming has revealed the limitations of the existing copyright system, which was still entirely focused on the record economy. In particular, the mechanical rights that had to be obtained by labels when a musical work was recorded defied the logic of music streaming. This caused legal uncertainty not…

Music rights are the main fuel of the music streaming economy. Music streaming services need licences to use the rights in order to launch and sustain their operations. As we have already seen in the case of Spotify, the major rights holders – labels and music publishers – demand princely sums for licensing their music…