SIAE-Meta and the excessive power of platforms: what are the solutions?

Anyone who has used Instagram recently will have realized how thousands and thousands of songs have been removed from the platform's media library, thus depriving a large number of Reels of the soundtrack that characterized them.

On March 16, 2023, a press release was issued by the SIAE, in which it communicated the "unilateral decision of Meta" to exclude from the library of songs available on social networks precisely those of the artists it represents.

The reference article investigates how this dispute between the two giants developed, who is lying and how this decision influences and impacts both the creators on the platforms and their users.