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royalties

The traditional streaming royalty model divides a platform's royalty pool pro rata by share of total streams, meaning a lightly-streamed AI track and a lightly-streamed human artist's track are treated identically. Several platforms have begun moving away from this. Spotify, Deezer and others have introduced or trialled thresholds that exclude tracks below a minimum stream count from payouts altogether, partly to filter out low-effort AI uploads created purely to capture background-listening royalties through repetition and playlist gaming.

• Some platforms exclude tracks under a minimum stream threshold from royalty pools entirely, aimed partly at low-effort AI uploads.
• Detection tools attempting to flag fully AI-generated tracks remain imperfect and are not disclosed in detail by the platforms using them.
• Licensing negotiations between labels and AI music firms are proceeding separately from platform-level payout policy, creating two parallel disputes.
• Songwriter and performer collecting societies have pushed back on filtering approaches they see as too blunt.