“The biggest flaw I want to highlight today is what is known as the “transfer of value” or the “value gap.” To survive and thrive, creators must be fairly paid for their works. Yet today, some of the world’s major digital music services are building large businesses on back of creativity while paying next to nothing in return.
This is not fair. It is a market distortion. And it is holding back growth in the creative sectors.”
[Editor Charlie sez: We are thrilled to welcome Helienne Lindvall to MTP as a guest writer! Helienne interviewed Jean Michel Jarre, the newly elected president of CISAC, at MIDEM. A version of this interview previously appeared in the Guardian. As this year’s conference is widely rumored to be the last MIDEM, we should enjoy it […]
VERMILLION Hell, I got lots of friends. DOC I don’t. Tombstone, written by Kevin Jarre A friend is someone whom you trust to do the right thing. Sometimes you’ll hear people say that a friend did something uncharacteristic. If they are really your friend, you will be the one to stand with them in those moments […]
MTP: How was the audience reaction for your first 30 days on the I Respect Music petition campaign? Blake Morgan: It’s honestly––and very happily––been above and beyond anything we could have estimated or ever hoped for. If you ask anyone who’s been working with me on this, they’ll tell you that the goal I’d set […]
Who can forget then-candidate Ronald Reagan’s classic line at the 1980 New Hampshire candidate’s debate: “I’m paying for this microphone!” And Google probably is wishing that whichever Ivy League idiot thought of rebranding their anti-SOPA campaign site with the double entendre “It’s Our Web” had not been quite so…uh..transparent…about it all. Because it certainly is “their web” […]
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