09/05/2025
Courtesy of Michael Haley ATTENTION: Producers... IF you have ever uploaded your music onto Spotify's music platform, I highly suggest you remove it at once... Starting september 26th, anything you upload to this corrupt companies web platform, you are giving up every right you have that protects you and your IP and are allowing them to use your content to do whatever they want with it, including changing, dividing, sharing even selling and distributing to any and all 3rd parties without giving you not only any monetary compensation, they don't even have to list you as the creator or author or giving you any credit whatso ever! In all of the years, I’ve spent in music business going to back to 1984, this is by far the worst one sided contract that I've ever seen or ever heard of.
DO NOT ALLOW all your music and hard work be stolen from you, including your name your future compensation and all your rights removed from it and from you voluntarily. There are many other platforms to get your music out there that you still own the rights to, and no one can take it from you. On every other platform, if down the road someone does use part of your content you have the right to claim it and all receive compensation and all monies your music has generated from third parties. Do not let this greedy corrupt company take what's legally yours and rob you of it…SPOTIFY is blatantly taking advantage of the mass amounts of young eager producers who have no idea the ramifications and consequences they will endure and suffer by not removing their content from this company IMMEDIATELY.
Here's just one pragraph from the mutitude of pages of their revised contract that you are agrreing to if you do nto remove your content..
"Licenses that you grant to us
User Content
You retain ownership of your User Content when you post it to the Spotify Service. However, in order for us to make your User Content available on the Spotify Service and to provide you with certain features and functions, we do need a limited license from you to that User Content. Accordingly, you hereby grant to Spotify a non-exclusive, transferable, sublicensable, royalty-free, fully paid, irrevocable, worldwide license to reproduce, make available, perform and display, translate, modify, create derivative works from, distribute, and otherwise use any such User Content through any medium, whether alone or in combination with other Content or materials, in any manner and by any means, method or technology, whether now known or hereafter created, in connection with the Spotify Service. Where applicable and to the extent permitted under applicable law, you also agree to waive, and not to enforce, any "moral rights" or equivalent rights, such as your right to be identified as the author of any User Content, including Feedback, and your right to object to derogatory treatment of such User Content."
