Thank EU for the music – not the grasping tech giants | Björn Ulvaeus

Tech companies make millions off songs, while writers get a pittance. The EU copyright directive will help level the playing field
• Björn Ulvaeus is a member of Abba

Shakespeare writes about a man, who “sold his goodly manor for a song”. The way I read it, the Bard implies that “a song” would be worth very little, if not to himself, at least to the people in his audience. A song is such a weightless, elusive phenomenon. How can anyone put a value on that?

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