After all the effort and achievement by our great audience in support of songwriters getting paid fairly in the #FrozenMechanicals crisis, we are finally coming to where the rubber meets the road and trying to decide how much songwriters should get paid by record companies selling music in three ways (called “configurations”):

permanent downloads, like iTunes and Amazon;

vinyl discs, like you buy in record shops on Records Store Day;

and compact discs (CDs).

We’re expecting the final proposal to get made in a matter of days, and we thought it would be good to start with a short Survey Monkey questionnaire to get an idea of what this audience thinks. We’re collaborating with a number of songwriter organizations to distribute the questionnaire to their members and friends.

All the data will be anonymous and will be released when the questionnaire is done!

The plan is to get some more evidence of what we all think about a few core pricing ideas, thanks to the awesome Copyright Royalty Judges who have rejected extending the 16 year freeze in response to comments from the public and objections by George Johnson, the only songwriter in the Phonorecords IV proceeding.

Watch this space!!