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Yes and yes
No that's the actual label taking the piss / advantage - this Faye situation is just people pretending to be the artist.
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There’s no way their label has uploaded the versions that are there, with those covers and misspelt tracks.
And yet. It's not V2 or a big label, it's a small diy label that inherited the Liberty X catalogue.
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The label has not done that.
Again it's not Liberty X's original label, it's smaller / local ones who somehow got the rights to some of the material they recorded when indie. How do you explain them being online for a decade while other fanmade uploads get taken down in days? Maybe @aquaplex can explain better
So anyone can put stuff onto DSPs - especially with something like Distrokid.
When you upload to a distributor it asks you if your music is already online and matches it to the same artist profile
There are sometimes some artists who protect against people people able to randomly upload in their name (I’ve seen people struggle to upload an old Tiesto remix because Tiesto’s people need to approve).
Basically it comes down to being able to police it. With apparently 40,000 tracks going online each week the platforms can’t do it so it then rests to artists.
Some keep a close eye on it, others don’t. Some people get round it by putting typos or just using a different name so that it isn’t instantly noticed by the artist/ their team.
Case in point. Someone has randomly put the missing radio edit of Paul Johnson’s Get Get Down online. It’s actually benefitted from being a track that was online for a while, put on tons of playlists and sat dormant when the track was taken offline. It’s given the “artist” 40,000 monthly listeners from that one track alone.
As for Liberty X, yes when they went indie for the third album there was clearly some deal which meant a label could just re packs it again and again.
When you upload to a distributor it asks you if your music is already online and matches it to the same artist profile
There are sometimes some artists who protect against people people able to randomly upload in their name (I’ve seen people struggle to upload an old Tiesto remix because Tiesto’s people need to approve).
Basically it comes down to being able to police it. With apparently 40,000 tracks going online each week the platforms can’t do it so it then rests to artists.
Some keep a close eye on it, others don’t. Some people get round it by putting typos or just using a different name so that it isn’t instantly noticed by the artist/ their team.
Case in point. Someone has randomly put the missing radio edit of Paul Johnson’s Get Get Down online. It’s actually benefitted from being a track that was online for a while, put on tons of playlists and sat dormant when the track was taken offline. It’s given the “artist” 40,000 monthly listeners from that one track alone.
As for Liberty X, yes when they went indie for the third album there was clearly some deal which meant a label could just re packs it again and again.
Anyone off to Pride this year.
Would the VIP Platinum or even the Gold circle be worth it?
Would the VIP Platinum or even the Gold circle be worth it?
Slightly off topic, but I think Unique Corp went bankrupt and it meant there was a free-for-all on some of their catalogue... in fact, some think/thought it covered the tracks Unique Corp had licensed, so that's why some of the X releases include the 4 V2 Music tracks from their first 2 releases, and some don't. Companies that have done this to make a quick dollar include Craze Productions - and they were the first to do it, and also tried it with Ultimate Aaliyah, before Blackground sent a cease and desist and said that the licensing deal did not cover further releases.
I went with the Gold circle - hopefully there's no high speakers this time like there was a Birmingham last year.
