Smaller record labels say Apple Music has not added money to the royalty payout pool to fund its 10% incentive for spatial audio, and instead it is reducing how much it pays all but the biggest firms.
Apple Music will pay musicians who release tracks in spatial audio a larger share of the revenue from streaming, which indie labels say is going to unfairly hurt their artists.
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