'Songwriters Are Not Treated Fairly': Nile Rodgers On Streaming's Present And Future

Earlier this week, a large group of successful songwriters sent Daniel Ek, the co-founder and chief executive of Spotify, a short and pointed letter in which they wrote of being "hurt and disappointed" and accusing Spotify of having "used us and tried to divide us."

In order to understand why that letter was sent, we need to go back to early February. It was then that a byzantine, but important, arrived which would see songwriters' royalties from streaming services increase dramatically over the next five years. But