Albums by Speedy Ortiz, Adult Mom and more have appeared on an NFT auction website without the artists' knowledge:
As if it weren’t already difficult enough to be a musician in 2022, songwriters now apparently have to worry about their songs being sold from underneath them as NFTs. Artists including Speedy Ortiz, Adult Mom and Best Coast were dismayed to discover their songs on a website called HitPiece on Tuesday, taking to Twitter to call attention to the situation.
“Wow just found out a website minted NFTs for a bunch of songs by bands I play in without our knowledge or permission, very cool!” multi-instrumentalist Audrey Zee Whitesides . “If you’re a musician who’s released stuff on a major streaming service it seems like this might also have happened to you?”Whitesides’ tweet, adding a screenshot of multiple Adult Mom songs up for auction on HitPiece, and asking, “Uhhh???? What the fuck is this?”
“Soooooo how do we all issue takedowns from the random NFT website that we all seem to have just now discovered is illegally selling our music,”Speedy Ortiz’s Sadie Dupuis, adding, “I already asked our label who’s asking its lawyer but in case one of you has ideas.” Home Is Where, Backxwash, dltzk, Heart Attack Man and For Your Health are among the other artists who have called the platform out on Twitter, with BackxwashResponding to one angry musician’s
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