Abstract

This article investigates contemporary cultural policy reforms enabled by paid digital media distribution services, taking the case of the integration of Spotify into the Swedish public media system. Specifically, it reflects on the conflicts arising over the prioritization of digital distribution over cultural preservation, during the gradual substitution of the Spotify digital services for the services provided by the traditional material media archive, the Grammofonarkivet. It considers the factors influencing changes in the Swedish cultural policy environment and the nature of the complaints and human rights claims made by employees of the Grammofonarkivet to UNESCO regarding its structural transformation. It also postulates a “Spotification” model of public service media emerging in Sweden but potentially affecting other countries with public media systems served by traditional media archives.

摘要

本文以Spotify集成到瑞典公共媒体系统为例，研究了由付费数字媒体分发服务支持的当代文化政策改革。具体来说，它反映了在将Spotify数字服务逐渐替换为传统材料媒体档案馆Grammofonarkivet提供的服务的过程中，优先考虑数字发行而不是文化保护所产生的冲突。它考虑了影响瑞典文化政策环境变化的因素以及Grammofonarkivet员工就其结构转型向联合国教科文组织投诉和人权要求的性质。