Economy/Ecology of Streaming

[relaxing]

Is there a minimum length of time a track must be played to be considered a “stream” for artist payout? Just curious.

30s

https://support.spotify.com/us/artists/article/how-we-count-streams/

 

[humprof]

Composer/saxophonist Matana Roberts reposted this to BlueSky today:
https://bsky.app/profile/archive.org/post/3lcvb2jhfhk2q

Original story here:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/...a-internet-archive-lawsuit-letter-1235195841/

tl;dr: 300+ musicians including Tegan and Sarah, Kathleen Hannah of Bikini Kill, Deerhoof, Eve 6, Speedy Ortiz & more have signed an open letter opposing big corporate record labels' lawsuit attacking the nonprofit Internet Archive.