Interesting blog post.
Off-topic question: When a song gets covered/made into an instrumental version by a 3rd party on Spotify , who gets paid for the plays?
The original recording artist or the 3rd party?
Off-topic question: When a song gets covered/made into an instrumental version by a 3rd party on Spotify , who gets paid for the plays?
The original recording artist or the 3rd party?
The other, (the ℗ copyright[2], and "master rights") is on a specific recording of the song, and is usually owned by a record label.
The cover generates royalties for both the recording artist (or their record label) that recorded the cover through the ℗ copyright and the songwriter that wrote the song (or their publishing company) through the © copyright.