> If the contract between artists and platform provides no such limitations, I fail to see how anyone is being defrauded of anything.
Then why does Spotify refuse to talk about it? It's clearly outside of the spirit of the deal they are striking with artists generally.
Ultimately, they will get away with it because of just the same quasi-justification you're offering: Oh we're not screwing any of them individually, we are screwing them all at once.
Congratulations I guess, your argument is on the winning side!
But certainly Congress, the UK parliament, EU parliament, Swedish parliament etc. should be looking at this through the lens of regulation and competition law. And for once I hope the record labels -- big and small, because so many of them are small -- sue.