Apple Music Just Did What Soundcloud Couldn’t

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Apple Music Just Did What Soundcloud Couldn’t

Apple Music looks set to revolutionise the music game by allowing edits and unlicensed mixes to exist on its platform without too much scrutiny.

By partnering with Dubset, a digital content distributor, they’re aiming to cater to some of the people turned off by the inability to share their creative takes on favourites.

While platforms like Soundcloud and Bandcamp have become a hub for music discovery, recently they’ve hit snags in the works with some of the music industry fighting against what they believe is lost revenue.

Apple Music and Dubset look to counter this by implementing a submission system that would, if successful, result in the sharing of revenue between the owner of the original track(s) and the artist who’d done the edit.

DJ superstar Steve Aoki thinks it’s a step in the right direction, “Apple working with Dubset now is a really simple solution to something traditionally complex, and allows everyone to make money on this content for the first time.”

Will this actually work though? If artists have to submit everything before it’s shared will it lead to a an endless build up of never released content? Only time will tell.

 

via: Dancing Astronaut

Words by Anthony V Serrano

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