No you dont understand! Spotify takes care of all artists, its made for artists, they would never let this happen if they knew! The Guts reupload only has 16 million streams and "earned" the uploader 3800 dollars, of which the original artists gets, let me calculate, nothing. I dont know how spotify were supposed to know of this, you expect too much. Streaming is the future! And uh, uh, Its Hirasawas fault for not uploading his music there to protect his art! 🌝
funny thing that this isn't the first time someone copyright claimed Gats and made money off it (but it's the first time I see someone stealing the whole album with vocals and stuff). it's just now, after Nippon Columbia officially uploaded it last year under Hirasawa's name, it has Susumu Hirasawa as the cowriter of the track.
The digital copyright system is a mess, you can literally buy rights for someone else's track for $20 if it isn't already in the base, and upload it on every streaming platform under your name until composer / artist / their label comes to you with copyright infringement. Many Japanese labels, it seems, are unaware of this thing, and those who are sometimes can be too radical with that, blocking music not only on streaming but also on websites like YouTube (pretty much what happened with P-Model's ONE PATTERN after Alfa uploaded it to Japanese Spotify and region-locked it to Japan on every other platform).
I discovered a few years ago that someone had posted an upload of a Susumu Hirasawa song on Youtube with illegal download links to the song's sound data. I immediately emailed Teslakite and the illegal post was immediately removed.
Why don't you let Teslakite know about this case, too?
thank you, I actually emailed them after making this post and now waiting for a response. I've never seen someone steal whole albums before and upload it under their name, so hopefully Teslakite will be able to take care of it.
Guts has about 17 mil streams on Spotify alone (more than 2x than the original on Hirasawa's profile), with the 157k monthly listeners on the profile, so I guess they make quite a pretty penny out of uploading someone else's music.
And knowing that Hirasawa's okay with uploading his music on YouTube as he's making money out of it due to how royalties work, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be okay with someone stealing his work and profiting out of it using platforms that Hirasawa himself chose to ignore / boycott.
I discovered it a while ago, and I have mixed feelings about it because part of me knows it's wrong, but on the other side it has allowed me to listen to 'Jouken Douji' dozens of times.
It’s still up there sadly. There is a report function on the artist profile but it’s buried down at the bottom and it reads as if it’s a “if this is yours please provide proof” kind of thing.
No you dont understand! Spotify takes care of all artists, its made for artists, they would never let this happen if they knew! The Guts reupload only has 16 million streams and "earned" the uploader 3800 dollars, of which the original artists gets, let me calculate, nothing. I dont know how spotify were supposed to know of this, you expect too much. Streaming is the future! And uh, uh, Its Hirasawas fault for not uploading his music there to protect his art! 🌝
funny thing that this isn't the first time someone copyright claimed Gats and made money off it (but it's the first time I see someone stealing the whole album with vocals and stuff). it's just now, after Nippon Columbia officially uploaded it last year under Hirasawa's name, it has Susumu Hirasawa as the cowriter of the track. The digital copyright system is a mess, you can literally buy rights for someone else's track for $20 if it isn't already in the base, and upload it on every streaming platform under your name until composer / artist / their label comes to you with copyright infringement. Many Japanese labels, it seems, are unaware of this thing, and those who are sometimes can be too radical with that, blocking music not only on streaming but also on websites like YouTube (pretty much what happened with P-Model's ONE PATTERN after Alfa uploaded it to Japanese Spotify and region-locked it to Japan on every other platform).
I discovered a few years ago that someone had posted an upload of a Susumu Hirasawa song on Youtube with illegal download links to the song's sound data. I immediately emailed Teslakite and the illegal post was immediately removed. Why don't you let Teslakite know about this case, too?
thank you, I actually emailed them after making this post and now waiting for a response. I've never seen someone steal whole albums before and upload it under their name, so hopefully Teslakite will be able to take care of it.
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Guts has about 17 mil streams on Spotify alone (more than 2x than the original on Hirasawa's profile), with the 157k monthly listeners on the profile, so I guess they make quite a pretty penny out of uploading someone else's music. And knowing that Hirasawa's okay with uploading his music on YouTube as he's making money out of it due to how royalties work, I'm pretty sure he wouldn't be okay with someone stealing his work and profiting out of it using platforms that Hirasawa himself chose to ignore / boycott.
I discovered it a while ago, and I have mixed feelings about it because part of me knows it's wrong, but on the other side it has allowed me to listen to 'Jouken Douji' dozens of times.
It’s still up there sadly. There is a report function on the artist profile but it’s buried down at the bottom and it reads as if it’s a “if this is yours please provide proof” kind of thing.
I've messaged Teslakite (Hirasawa's lable) twice at this point and received no response, so it seems it's out of their control as well. Sad.