James Taylor: Streaming businesses should pay artists half

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James Taylor is OK with the booming streaming music business, but he believes artists deserve 50 percent of the profits.

“If someone’s going to be making money off of my recorded music, I think that I should be getting half of that money that they’re making because I’m the one who generated the product,” Taylor said in a recent interview. “What I’d like to see about Spotify is how much money is the company making relative to what the artist is making? For every dollar they take in, they should be giving 50 cents to the people who actually recorded the music.”

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