--- title: How Music Streaming Is Killing the Songwriter description: How streaming services threaten songwriting, putting Putin on defense in Syria and more. canonical: https://time.com/4213796/streaming-music-killing-songwriter/ author: TIME article:opinion: true article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-09T17:01:51.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T05:00:26.596Z article:section: Ideas og:title: How Music Streaming Is Killing the Songwriter og:description: These are today's best ideas og:url: https://time.com/4213796/streaming-music-killing-songwriter/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: How Music Streaming Is Killing the Songwriter twitter:description: These are today's best ideas twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # How Music Streaming Is Killing the Songwriter by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 9, 2016 5:01 PM UTC by [The Aspen Institute](https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/) ## The Aspen Institute Feb 9, 2016 5:01 PM UTC **1\.** [**Streaming services pay so little, why would anyone write music?**](http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/will-streaming-music-kill-songwriting) By John Seabrook in the New Yorker **2\.** [**To put pressure on Putin, the U.S. could carve out a safe haven for Syrian civilians.**](http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-0209-ross-what-putin-wants-syria-20160209-story.html) By Dennis Ross in the Los Angeles Times **3\.** [**This ‘bionic spinal cord’ will convert thoughts into movement for people with paralysis.**](http://mashable.com/2016/02/08/bionic-spinal-cord-australia/) By Ariel Bogle in Mashable **4\.** [**To retain teachers, flatten their pay curve.**](http://www.ozy.com/acumen/why-it-pays-to-be-an-older-teacher/66900) By Steven Butler in Ozy **5\.** [**Some scientists think food advertising is actually making us fat.**](http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/01/29/462838153/food-ads-make-us-eat-more-and-should-be-regulated) By Eliza Barclay at NPR  [_The Aspen Institute_](http://www.aspeninstitute.org/) _is an educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C._ ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"OpinionNewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4213796/streaming-music-killing-songwriter/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4213796/streaming-music-killing-songwriter/"},"headline":"How Music Streaming Is Killing the Songwriter","datePublished":"2016-02-09T17:01:51.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T05:00:26.596Z","description":"These are today's best ideas","url":"https://time.com/4213796/streaming-music-killing-songwriter/","keywords":["Innovation","putin","fat","Pandora","Syria","Paralysis","Teachers"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"The Aspen Institute","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/the-aspen-institute/"}],"articleSection":"Ideas","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/ideas/","name":"Ideas"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/innovation/","name":"Innovation"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4213796/streaming-music-killing-songwriter/","name":"How Music Streaming Is Killing the Songwriter"}}]}] ```