Ghost artists on Spotify

i think there really needs to be a set of laws prohibiting marketplace providers like uber, amazon, and spotify from also offering their own products on the same platform

Despite the headline, it's not actually Spotify creating the music, but third parties taking advantage of their playlist model.

Just a question—not meant to sound rude or offensive in any way—but would you also apply this logic to supermarkets offering their own generic brands‽

Why not? That can be construed as abusing their 'monopoly' over shelf space and foot traffic, it's unfair competition that displaces other legitimate businesses.

Incidentally, in the Netherlands a lot of supermarkets stock a 'shared house brand' called Gwoon. Usually the cheapest option by far and decent quality. I don't know what they do to keep prices as low as actual house brands, but it seems possible.

> I don't know what they do

Common products are actually not that expensive if you don't have to pay leeches like marketing agencies and investors.

> third parties taking advantage of their playlist model.

Not really, it's a collaboration since Spotify actively promotes these third parties because they cost less royalties

I’ve been thinking about it and if there had to be a common rule for all these cases, I would say “yes”.

However, if it was possible, I would set a threshold maybe based on an annual revenue. Let’s say I run a small board game store, where I sell games from other producers, but also my own games that I published. I’m a small entrepreneur, should I be prohibited from exposing my products more?

Amazon, Spotify and some supermarket chains have such a dominant position in some markets they can abuse their position, they should be under scrutiny, but not small retail companies that want to try to create something on their own