UMAW
@umaw.bsky.social
UMAW is a 501(c)(4) member-led advocacy group committed to organizing music workers to create a more just music industry, and to join with other workers in the struggle for a better society.
Today UMAW officially launches our Raise the Bar campaign, our effort to establish baseline standards for artist treatment. We call on all venues to commit to these four standards: 1. No Merch Cuts 2. No Pay to Play 3. No Door Polling 4. Contract Transparency
Deezer has debuted an AI music detector that works across all DSPs, not just theirs. Via @musically.com
Spotify’s new “fix” for the flood of AI songs taking over the platform is a verification badge for human artists. This badge is ONLY available to artists with over 10,000 monthly listeners for three consecutive months.
Spotify has released a Wrapped-style look back at your listening history in honor of their 20th anniversary of paying their artists poverty wages
AI slop-makers are uploading staggering amounts of AI-generated songs to streaming services. This dilutes the royalty pool, increases fraud and impersonation, and harms real human artists. We need REAL protections against AI!
MSG has been surveilling its attendees in “excessive and intrusive ways” since 2018. This panopticon-level surveillance endangers fans, artists, and music workers alike— especially when that surveillance is targeted. Via Them
Statement from UMAW in @pitchfork.com as Ticketmaster-Live Nation is found to be an illegal monopoly
What a fucking nightmare. The current music industry only serves the billionaires and tech bros. Musicians and music workers can take back the power from these massive corporations if we ORGANIZE!
Today is Trans Day of Visibility. We are indebted to the trans musicians & music workers who have fought for trans rights for years, and who have revolutionized and expanded the music industry. Bring a trans artist on tour! Hire a trans music worker! Support your trans peers!
Suno is producing 7M AI songs per day. Streaming services are being flooded with AI slop, diluting the revenue pool and further decreasing payouts for artists. We need the Living Wage for Musicians Act! The new, additional LWMA royalty would only be available to human musicians.
Mikey Shulman wants producers and songwriters to use his exploitative AI tools so badly that he’s trying to convince everyone they already are. Resist AI in music! Don’t give in to these hacks!
Rolling Stone@rollingstone.com · 4mo agoAI use is “the Ozempic of the music industry — everybody is on it, and nobody wants to talk about it,” Mikey Shulman, CEO of Suno AI music generator, recently said. #RollingStoneFutureOfMusic More: www.rollingstone.com/music/music-...
Lorde has exited her 17-year long contract with Universal. A 12-year-old child should not have to decide if she wants to enter into a multi-decade record contract, especially with a major label known for predatory deals.
TONIGHT! See you at Hole in the Wall at 8pm for the Fair Pay and No Warmongers at SXSW show 💪
Spotify's new CEO Gustav Söderström is giving a keynote address at SXSW tomorrow. @umaw.bsky.social will be holding a picket outside.
Internal messages from Live Nation reveal two execs talking about "robbing [fans] blind." “These people are so stupid. I almost feel bad taking advantage of them," one says. That man is now the head of ticketing for the unit responsible for Live Nation's 150 amphitheaters.
Live Nation Can ‘Gouge’ Fans on Fees, Ticketing Executives Boast
Two Live Nation Entertainment Inc. executives bragged about the high fees the company charges fans at its venues, joking in internal messages that the company is “robbing them blind” and that “these p...
bloomberg.com
Every year, Spotify releases “Loud and Clear” — coincidentally on the anniversary of when UMAW delivered our demands to their door. They come up with excuses, ignoring the reality that Spotify exploits musicians! The majority of artists are paid poverty wages. That must change.
Thrilled to add HIKES to the UMAW SXSW protest show this year! RSVP link in bio - the show is free but RSVP is required. MARCH 15th at Hole in the Wall! See you there! 💪❤️
Instead of taking Live Nation-Ticketmaster to trial, Trump just let them off the hook. The federal government had been building a case for years, and could have broken up the Live Nation-Ticketmaster monopoly. But Trump just let them settle out of court. www.reuters.com/sustainabili...
Live Nation settles US antitrust case
Live Nation Entertainment has reached a proposed settlement with the U.S. Justice Department, according to a court hearing on Monday.
reuters.com