For more than 60 years, the rights of authors - being direct or indirect ( mechanicals, airplay, neighboring rights...) - have been collected by private organisations with a state protected monopoly. (Sacem, Sagem, Sabam, Biem Stemra...)
For years this has resulted in a widespread collection and redistribution of rights, be it fair or not, it's not our main focuspoint at the moment...
What is however, is that with the collection of the money, the collecting societies also profiled themselves as the protector of the rights of the artist, a bit like a Union does for workers.
This is an unprecedented manifestation of power never seen in an industry before. The people protecting your rights are also the ones paying your money....they are biassed....
Unless totally transparent, no worker would believe their honesty and neither should you as an artist or an organiser.
Do you agree on the issue of the text above?
12 replies added
On 2008-3-3 at 16:06 musicnlights said:
i hope this initiative gets a discussion started , for this has been going on for far too long
On 2008-3-3 at 16:08 teleferique said:
transparency through technology
yeah!
On 2008-3-3 at 17:13 willy said:
i myself have have quite some experience in the way they (SABAM) don't seem the need to help you when you need them , but haunt you when you grow ; these organisations are not to be trusted with a candy stick let alone your money
On 2008-3-3 at 19:23 wedothebump said:
transparency will save our souls!
On 2008-3-4 at 17:55 kwabbernoot1 said:
Le Sacem
ca suce comme toujours
qu'est-ce qui va changer cela?
younison?
preparez vous
ils sont méchants
succes alors!
On 2008-3-7 at 17:29 hilmouse said:
How about creative commons?
Your rights as an artist are protected as soon as you would create anything.
On 2008-3-11 at 04:27 Royoslo said:
this is clearly a sign that something is happening...
Is transparency utopy??
On 2008-3-11 at 14:10 Kelvin said:
That's the question,
And the answer will be voted here shortely,
when we have a broad basis of European artists claiming what they want!
power to the artists!
On 2008-3-18 at 13:18 artizer said:
After 3 decades of spinning records, i must agree there's still a lot of work to do, i'm glad the time has come, musicians, producers, DJ's, etc, can finally have they words directly into the ears and heads of the politicians. There are still a lot of (for the big public) musicmakers that have the right for a better existence, by showing and voting on this platform they have a voice ! Tell everybody that You know who is busy with music, but for all...Thanx to Younison for making it happen.
On 2008-3-26 at 14:58 EGD said:
I would just like to add that for us it was hard to decide if working with sabam was something good or bad, you know what you pay, but not what you get (or at least it's very hard to find the right answers, there are more wild stories and points of views than real facts) and when you release a first album with little money, like we did in 2007 and doing everything ourself well... If, if, if is not a good word when you want to be sure :) So we decided not to work with them and still don't realy know if it was a good or a bad decision, I hope this platform can change some things!!
On 2008-3-31 at 17:55 Liesbet said:
sabam is doing some helpful things for artists, i think,
they just shouldn't ask soooo muuuuch money for it..
On 2008-5-24 at 00:02 mintmusic1 said:
transparency is pure gold
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