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via Billboard
by Karen Bliss
All TuneCore-distributed music has been removed from the Amazon MP3 store in the European Union and the United Kingdom as of January 24 because of an ongoing dispute concerning non-payment of royalties, according to TuneCore CEO Jeff Price.
In a TuneCore blog post dated Feb. 1, entitled “Why Your Music is Currently Unavailable in AmazonMP3 in the EU and the UK,” Price explains how TuneCore’s agreement with Amazon EU and UK expired.
“Although we fully intended to renew, TuneCore also had to address the fact that over the course of the agreement, Amazon had not been paying TuneCore Artists to license their songs for download in a significant number of the recordings distributed,” Price wrote.
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