As most people have heard by now, Taylor Swift wrote a letter to Apple about their new streaming music service, Apple Music, that will be available on June 30, 2015.
Many applauded her stance on why she will not be putting her album 1989 on the streaming service as she wrote:
Three months is a long time to go unpaid, and it is unfair to ask anyone to work for nothing. I say this with love, reverence, and admiration for everything else Apple has done.
After Swift’s letter went viral, the Senior Vice President of Internet Software and Services, Eddy Cue, sent out this tweet informing artists that they will be paid while users are on the free-trial.
#AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming, even during customer’s free trial period
— Eddy Cue (@cue) June 22, 2015
However, some criticized Swift calling her a hypocrite, as she exploits photographers for their work at her concerts as Jason Sheldon wrote in a response to Swifts letter.
Photographers need to earn a living as well. Like Apple, you can afford to pay for photographs so please stop forcing us to hand them over to you while you prevent us from publishing them more than once, ever.
