P2/Songwriter asks CRB to stop Spotify from setting a minimum for streaming royalties.

George Johnson, a songwriter and activist for changing copyright laws, recently explained problems with the unfair and anti-competitive system. Spotify might change the way it pays artists, but it hasn't said anything officially yet. Some reports say that they might stop paying artists whose songs have less than 1,000 streams in the last year.

 
Most of the songs on Spotify, which has over 100 million tracks as of the end of 2022, have not reached 1,000 streams. And only a few of them are expected to reach 1,000 streams in the next year.

Some people like the idea because they think it will help artists make more money, while others are worried about the plan to stop paying for millions of songs.
The discussion has now changed to whether the way people are paid for their work is against the law, especially when it comes to the music they create.

Johnson wrote a letter to the Copyright Royalty Board. He said that the "unlawful" Spotify stream threshold goes against the Copyright Act and other CRB decisions.

Johnson says Spotify is trying to cheat  music artists out of a lot of money by not paying them for their songs that are already on Spotify. He also mentioned that Spotify has been accused of stealing a lot of music without permission.

In conclusion, Johnson requested the judges not to let Spotify illegally use songs without permission. He said that the rule for how many plays a song needs to get paid is unfair and harms competition.
In the future, it will be good to watch for Spotify's response to comments from Johnson and others, as well as an announcement about changes to the royalties.
 Even though flexible rates and terms for recordings are determined through free-market negotiations, compositions are still protected by the compulsory license. The necessary license is required in order to use the original music. "The US government has rules and requirements for how Spotify can use certain music, and these rules can only be changed if Spotify gets a special permission to use the original song. "

"The sound recording didn't make any money from streams 1 to 999, but the original song still needs to be paid for. "

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