People who are immersed in that have been chomping at the bit for years, saying Facebook needs to be moderated, Twitter needs to be moderated. What’s the issue in this situation?įirst and foremost, this is a content moderation problem. In that way, the music industry and artists have a bit of a love-hate relationship with Spotify, because it's given them this amazing reach and a way to connect with fans and consumers, but it has also become a bit of a bottleneck. It was already a big deal in Sweden and Europe before it came here around 2008 and began to pick up steam. Spotify was different from other technological innovations that caused piracy problems, in that its whole shtick was they solved piracy problems.īut from the music industry perspective, the problem quickly became: You don't pay us much, you don't pay us what we're used to making when we sell a CD.

Spotify is arguably a big deal, both for music fans and for the music industry. Kristelia García, associate professor with Colorado Law CU Boulder Today spoke with Kristelia García, an associate professor with Colorado Law who spent nearly a decade working in the music industry in Los Angeles at Napster, MySpace Music and Universal Music Group, about this new frontier in content moderation.

These events have prompted a lively discussion about if and how content on streaming platforms should be moderated going forward. Spotify has since removed more than 70 episodes, Rogan has issued an apology and Spotify’s stock has jumped back up. Over the weekend, a video compilation of Rogan repeatedly using racial slurs was posted online, renewing artists’ calls to #DeleteSpotify. (In 2020, Rogan signed a $100 million deal giving Spotify exclusive rights to his show.) The streaming giant lost $2 billion in market value in the final days of January after hundreds of doctors accused Rogan of promoting COVID-19 misinformation on his show The Joe Rogan Experience and superstars Neil Young and Joni Mitchell asked for their music to be taken off the platform. Spotify CEO Daniel Ek told employees on Sunday that he was disappointed in Joe Rogan but has no intention of ‘silencing’ the controversial podcaster in the wake of celebrity boycotts and an alarming stock plunge.

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