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  "case_id": "DIG-DIS-2024",
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  "title": "Dig Dis! — Distribution-Control, Metadata-Authority and Royalty-Accounting Verification Record",
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  "generated_at": "2026/06/10",
  "positioning": "Public-redacted citation index. Not accusations. Not conclusions.",
  "redaction_notice": "The source index publishes public-safe source categories only. Raw files, images, filenames, private identities, country details, account identifiers, tracking identifiers, and private correspondence are withheld.",
  "seo_topics": [
    "Dig Dis!",
    "Dig Dis distributor risk",
    "distribution-control gap",
    "takedown-response gap",
    "royalty-accounting issue",
    "metadata-authority gap",
    "Spotify-derived metadata dependency",
    "remix-title control gap",
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    "rokket release metadata",
    "catalogue-control verification",
    "post-termination distribution visibility",
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    "transparent monthly invoices",
    "full control over music",
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      "name": "platform-wide removal authority risk",
      "page": "https://factualist.org/records/dig-dis-2024/#platform-wide-removal-authority-risk",
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    },
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      "name": "metadata-authority gap",
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      "public_safe_meaning": "Reported Spotify-derived metadata dependency and remix-title control friction are treated as workflow-verification issues, not as technical-defect findings."
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      "name": "public claims vs observed control gap",
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      "name": "royalty-accounting gap",
      "page": "https://factualist.org/records/dig-dis-2024/#royalty-accounting-gap",
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    },
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      "section_id": "public-claims-vs-observed-control-gap",
      "heading": "Public Claims vs. Observed Control Gap",
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      "section_id": "metadata-authority-issue",
      "heading": "Spotify-Derived Metadata Dependency and Remix-Title Control Gap",
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      "heading": "Metadata-Control Friction",
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    },
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      "heading": "Documents That Would Resolve the Issue",
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      "source_type": "publication review record",
      "title": "Factualist public-redaction review for Dig Dis! record",
      "public_summary": "Internal publication review for public-facing scope, reporting-side anonymity, no-legal-conclusion framing, and correction-ready wording.",
      "observed_at": "2026/06/10",
      "evidence_grade": "C",
      "public_visibility": "public-redacted",
      "redaction_status": "reporting-side identity withheld",
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      "source_type": "private evidence inventory review",
      "title": "Private evidence inventory summary for Dig Dis! distribution-control matter",
      "public_summary": "Private evidence inventory includes reported termination / disengagement context, takedown-request summaries, distribution-visibility checks, royalty-accounting questions, catalogue-control correspondence, and metadata-control concerns. Raw files, private names, reporting-side organization identity, affected catalogue identity, release identifiers, account identifiers, payment identifiers, country details tied to the affected side, and private correspondence are withheld.",
      "observed_at": "2026/06/10",
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      "public_urls": []
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      "source_id": "src-digdis-official-english-public-claims",
      "source_type": "official public website",
      "title": "Dig Dis! English homepage public control and transparency claims",
      "public_summary": "Official English public materials market \"Full control over your music!\", transparent monthly invoices, immediate invoicing, and personal service. This source is used only as public-claims context for comparison with the reviewed operational record.",
      "observed_at": "2026/06/10",
      "evidence_grade": "C",
      "public_visibility": "public",
      "redaction_status": "public official website; no private reporting-side data",
      "review_status": "reviewed",
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        "https://digdis.de/en/"
      ]
    },
    {
      "source_id": "src-digdis-official-tools-metadata-claims",
      "source_type": "official public website",
      "title": "Dig Dis! tools page public metadata and label-management claims",
      "public_summary": "Official public tools materials state that digdis.app gives label management in one place, describe full control, and describe rokket! as a release-creation workflow where all relevant metadata can be added before worldwide delivery. This source is used only as public metadata-positioning context.",
      "observed_at": "2026/06/10",
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      "source_id": "src-digdis-official-german-artist-revenue-claims",
      "source_type": "official public website",
      "title": "Dig Dis! German artist-revenue and monthly-accounting public claims",
      "public_summary": "Official German public materials state \"Aber kein Künstler hat etwas zu verschenken\" and describe quick email response, transparent and fast work, and monthly accounting. This source is used only as public-claims context.",
      "observed_at": "2026/06/10",
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      "review_status": "reviewed",
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        "https://digdis.de/mit-musik-geld-verdienen"
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      "source_id": "src-digdis-official-royalty-statements-claims",
      "source_type": "official public website",
      "title": "Dig Dis! royalty-statements public accounting-positioning page",
      "public_summary": "Official Royalty Statements public materials position correct, transparent, and timely royalty statements as important in the music business. This source is used only as public accounting-positioning context.",
      "observed_at": "2026/06/10",
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      "source_type": "takedown and response summary",
      "title": "Takedown-request and response-gap summary",
      "public_summary": "Reviewed summary preserves the reporting-side position that takedown / removal requests remained unresolved or inadequately documented after a reported termination / disengagement request. The public record treats this as an operational verification issue, not as a legal finding.",
      "observed_at": "2024/12/31",
      "evidence_grade": "A",
      "public_visibility": "public-redacted summary only",
      "redaction_status": "private request text, private emails, release identifiers, and reporting-side identity withheld",
      "review_status": "reviewed",
      "public_urls": []
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      "source_id": "src-digdis-platform-wide-removal-summary",
      "source_type": "distribution-control summary",
      "title": "Platform-wide removal authority and catalogue-control summary",
      "public_summary": "Reviewed summary records the risk that a distributor with catalogue control can initiate broad DSP-network removal or withholding actions across multiple platforms. This record does not state that any removal was unlawful; it records why authority boundaries, logs, and written explanations matter.",
      "observed_at": "2024/12/31",
      "evidence_grade": "D",
      "public_visibility": "public-redacted summary only",
      "redaction_status": "affected catalogue identity, release identifiers, and private correspondence withheld",
      "review_status": "reviewed",
      "public_urls": []
    },
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      "source_id": "src-digdis-royalty-accounting-summary",
      "source_type": "royalty-accounting summary",
      "title": "Royalty-accounting and unpaid-revenue question summary",
      "public_summary": "Reviewed summary preserves a reported unresolved royalty-accounting issue for the relevant period. Factualist does not state that funds were diverted, misappropriated, or legally owed by final determination.",
      "observed_at": "2024/12/31",
      "evidence_grade": "A",
      "public_visibility": "public-redacted summary only",
      "redaction_status": "payment identifiers, private account details, release identifiers, and reporting-side identity withheld",
      "review_status": "reviewed",
      "public_urls": []
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    {
      "source_id": "src-digdis-metadata-workflow-summary",
      "source_type": "metadata-control workflow summary",
      "title": "Metadata-control and release-workflow summary",
      "public_summary": "Reviewed summary preserves a reported metadata-control issue: the release workflow appeared to rely on Spotify-derived metadata, with limited pre-delivery control over capitalization, remix-version naming, title formatting, and post-import correction handling. This is preserved as a metadata-authority and workflow-verification issue, not as a technical-defect finding.",
      "observed_at": "2024/12/31",
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      "review_status": "reviewed",
      "public_urls": []
    },
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      "source_id": "src-digdis-small-balance-accounting-summary",
      "source_type": "royalty-accounting summary",
      "title": "Small-balance accounting and payout-threshold summary",
      "public_summary": "Reviewed summary preserves a reported small-balance payout / unpaid-revenue question. The exact wording, threshold, amount, and applicability remain subject to screenshot-level or account-record verification and are not presented as confirmed public claims.",
      "observed_at": "2024/12/31",
      "evidence_grade": "D",
      "public_visibility": "public-redacted summary only",
      "redaction_status": "payment identifiers, dashboard values, private account details, reporting-side organization identity, country details tied to the affected side, and raw correspondence withheld",
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