Gotchya! I was trying to think of the closest analogue here and was totally in the dark about the mechanics in play.

It’s a distinction that matters.

What % of youtube rev is generated on streaming channels.

In the circumstances where an art gallery sells a piece on consignment, if they don’t provide a 1099 to the artist, what exactly DO they provide OR what is the artist’s recourse for reporting this income?

Youtube isn’t soliciting these people actively for their goods. It’s an opt-in.

I’m digging down into how things like consignment shops work with 1099s - apparently art galleries don’t have to provide 1099s to artists who sell works through galleries because of an exemption for merchandise.

Quick question, is this a 1099-Misc? you’re getting?

I’m willing to bet that the designation was by default given no other options to account for revenue distributed out by Google.

Would you prefer to be a full time employee of Google where they have creative control over your content so you can get a W-2 instead?

At least with movies receiving tax breaks, subsidies, enticements to film in locations there is more than one person reaping the whirlwind of it. To wit, why stop there? Why are there no grants to buskers at the state and federal level?

Thank you! I am a former teamster and really do love the power of labor and think unionization can be a good way to not be left behind in a corporation that relies on labor to operate.

Although even within retail, workers have labor power because while each individual might be expendable, collectively they are less so because the cost of replacement and revenue loss in transition of replacing an entire floor of workers across several stores is a headache.

I’m sure the potential of exposure outweighs any proposed boycott. Google isn’t going to miss your eyeballs that much.

It’s hard to unionize sectors of labor where a company is not dependent at all what-so-ever on labor to return profits.

You create content voluntarily without fear of reprisal for failing to do so. There is no stick Google can use to compel you to live up to any contractual contractor obligation vis a vis content creation. You are using them as a distribution vendor for your content.

The thing is, while I respect your analysis I have very little sympathy as a fellow ‘artist’.

Online buskers is what I call streamers now, thanks to you.

They deserve exactly what youtube is willing to pay out to them and what fans of their ‘art’ are willing to donate through whatever means.

I don’t given that depriving the market of its labor through strike action would be hilariously ineffective.

“Online content creation needs to be a more sustainable job. Because it is a job.”