EU calls for laws to force greater algorithmic transparency from music-streaming platforms

🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary The European Parliament is calling for new rules to bring more fairness and transparency to music-streaming across the bloc, including proposals for a new bill to force streaming platforms to open up their recommendation algorithms.

However, the company performed a 180-degree turn when the government gave assurances that music-streaming platforms wouldn’t be expected to cover extra costs resulting from the law.

Similarly, France recently introduced a new tax that will impose a levy of between 1.5 and 1.75% on all music-streaming services to fund a new body set up in 2020 that supports the French music sector.

In response, Spotify vowed to cut back its investment in the French market, starting with pulling support for two music festivals.

Spanish politician and MEP Iban García del Blanco said that the Parliament is “giving voice to the concerns of European creators.”

“The success of music streaming with consumers in Europe and around the world is driven by freedom of choice and discovery, a combination of the on-demand nature of our services and relevant recommendations,” Olivia Regnier, Digital Music Europe chair and senior director for European policy at Spotify, said in a statement issued to TechCrunch.

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This is so much needed. Music right now is just another machanism of data extraction
The algorithm that just adds the same 10 songs to every playlist because i marked them as liked 2 years ago
🤖 I'm a bot that provides automatic summaries for articles: ::: spoiler Click here to see the summary The European Parliament is calling for new rules to bring more fairness and transparency to music-streaming across the bloc, including proposals for a new bill to force streaming platforms to open up their recommendation algorithms.
However, the company performed a 180-degree turn when the government gave assurances that music-streaming platforms wouldn’t be expected to cover extra costs resulting from the law.
Similarly, France recently introduced a new tax that will impose a levy of between 1.5 and 1.75% on all music-streaming services to fund a new body set up in 2020 that supports the French music sector.
In response, Spotify vowed to cut back its investment in the French market, starting with pulling support for two music festivals.
Spanish politician and MEP Iban García del Blanco said that the Parliament is “giving voice to the concerns of European creators.”
“The success of music streaming with consumers in Europe and around the world is driven by freedom of choice and discovery, a combination of the on-demand nature of our services and relevant recommendations,” Olivia Regnier, Digital Music Europe chair and senior director for European policy at Spotify, said in a statement issued to TechCrunch.
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