Apple will pay copyright holders 0.2 cents per song during the free period to use Apple Music
Makradar Technologies / / December 19, 2019
According to information The New York Times, Apple has failed to agree with the owners and will be forced to pay record labels and individual artists for every time one or the other track will be played in Apple Music service at no cost to you period. The cost of playing is not too big - just 0.2 cents.
Previously, Apple had planned to do a trial period in the Apple Music free not only for users, but also for themselves. later, under the pressure artists this approach was dropped, and the company said it still pay the fees.
One of the reasons for discontent with the stars became a very long period of free use of the service. While competitors offer one month of free listening to music, Apple allows users to listen to any composition as much as 90 days.
Thanks to Apple's concessions, in the list of albums available in the Apple Music got creative Adele, Taylor Swift and other famous artists.
It is worth noting that even with the potential user base in tens of millions at this price one track company expenses will be relatively small. Probably including the reason why Apple did not resist to the end, and agreed to the terms of the copyright holders. How much profit from the Apple Music and on what basis the company will deduct the artists after the end of the trial period - is not known.
Running Apple music service slated for June 30 and will take place in 100 countries, among which will be and Russia.