On Sunday, American singer Taylor swift on his blog criticized music Apple Music service, saying that it’s shocking policy of the company, who decided not to pay the artists during the free trial period. Several hours later, Apple responded to the appeal of the musician, stating that the revised policy of the service.
Apple has confirmed that it will pay authors, producers and performers for listening to the users of their songs during the three-month period, for which the users themselves will remain free. The newspaper The New York Times managed to find out a specific amount of deductions. Within three months, Cupertino intends to pay the creators and performers of 0.2 cents per track listening. In addition, Apple will deduct a small amount to the publishers holding the copyright for the song.
After the demonstration period, Apple has said it is ready to pay the artists from 71,5 to 73% of the revenues from the broadcast of their compositions. For comparison, licensing agreements between Spotify and the holders of the rights to musical compositions, the service allocates 70% of revenues.
The new Apple music service Music was presented on June 9 at WWDC. Later it became known that the authorities of the States of new York and Connecticut began a preliminary investigation against Apple and a number of music companies, figuring out whether the new service is the result of collusion of companies or forced Lee majors Apple to cooperate in a criminal way.
Apple is planning to launch Apple Music with 30 June in over one hundred countries around the world. It is planned that further individual subscription will cost $ 169, family — 259 rubles.
