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Younison Event sparks off public discussion.
Posted by Kelvin on Jul 04, 2009 at 14:59
Our event on the 30th of June seems to have egnited some discussions that are very needed in this matter.
The fact that we made the issue of the collective rightsmanagement something to talk about beween artists is encouraging and needs to be the prelude to a much broader debate with all keyplayers in the field.
However , the way we are being portrayed by Galm, in this matter is disturbing to say the least.
We have been attacked by people that are not well informed about our mission,or that are out to discredit us.
Is this reaction fuelled by frustration? It is certainly not contributing to an open and constructive atmosphere.
Rather than picking a fight with these people, we want to move on and look to the future.
Everyone that has signed our charter should know that we are not trying to abolish anything. One of our main missions is to make sure that the money collected in your name finds its way to your account. To do so we think it is necessary to rethink the way collective management of rights is organized, and we encourage the use of technology to do so.
The fact that private copy levies are collected is not the issue here.
We encourage the fact that money is collected in the name of the author, the more money collected for artists, should be all the better for the artists.
That this is not always the case was displayed at the event
Key issues for us are:
Transparency of data involved with collection
Accountability of all moneystreams
New digital streams of income need to be collected and taken in account
We desperately want to ensure that the future of copyright is built on solid legitimate basis, but if the money is redistributed wrongly in more than 50% of the cases, and if the new forms of digital income are not admitted to the equasion to make the redistribution as transparent and fair as possible, we dread that there will be a day when the lack of legitimacy of collective rights management will topple the balans and we might end up loosing much more than we care for.
A similar thing happened to the record industry 10 years ago, when the big record companies dismissed the idea of technology and called the internet downloads “a passing fad for tech freaks”
We all know how that turned out...
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