Apple responds to Taylor Swift and promises to pay royalties during free trial

Deepanker Verma

11 years ago

Yesterday, taylor swift wrote and open letter to Apple showing her disappointment on Apple Music’s policy in which Apple decided not to pay artists the royalty in free trial period. Today, Apple responded to Taylor Swift and assured to pay the royalty even in trial period.

Apple media boss Eddy Cue tweeted to respond Taylor Swift.

Apple will always make sure that artist are paid #iTunes #AppleMusic

— Eddy Cue (@cue) June 22, 2015

#AppleMusic will pay artist for streaming, even during customer’s free trial period

— Eddy Cue (@cue) June 22, 2015

Taylor Swift is yet to respond Eddy to confirm whether her album “1989” will be back on Apple Music or not.

ReCode reported that Apple decided to pay for entire three months of the trial period. But the rate will be lower than the rate after free users become subscribers. This payment will be per-stream basis but Apple didn’t disclose the rate of payment.

Eddy Cue confirmed that he didn’t talk to Taylor regarding this so he couldn’t confirm if this effort is enough to get her album 1989 back on Apple Music.

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