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A new organisation, the Featured Artists’ Coalition was launched yesterday (Sunday 5 October 2008) at the music industry’s In The City in Manchester to campaign for the protection of performers’ and musicians’ rights. Formed by some of the best-known names in music — Billy Bragg, Craig David, Iron Maiden, Radiohead, Robbie Williams, Wet Wet Wet to name a few — the Coalition will give artists the voice they need to argue for greater control over their music.
The campaign is all about artists remaining in control of their creative works, rather than giving it away for (almost) nothing to producers, labels and other middle men.
Details on the website of the Featured Artists Coalition, www.featuredartistscoalition.com
According to the Beeb, or more accurately: according to Poet Laureate Andrew Motion, as cited on BBC, writing for the Royals is “a hiding to nothing.”
So do we have to rewrite all these business models based on the idea powerful platforms of performance? Do we have to revert back to the old fashioned royalties idea? Or is writing for the Royals not even more old fashioned, given the post of Poet Laureate has been introduced in 1668, the statute of Ann dating from 1710?
On the official Google blog it is announced today that Google is starting a similar digitization campaign with newspapers. As an example they show the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette of July 21, 1969 … Is that now violating the poor news sub-eds author’s rights or an incredibly valuable source for young novelists?