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Time for GEMA and other collecting societies to retire token ‘rentier artists’ and make room for younger talents of the 21st century
Posted by Kelvin on Feb 04, 2011 at 11:35
New EU Law on transparency and accountability in the collection and distribution of money by European collecting societies will benefit everybody but the cronies of yesteryear.
GEMA and its Deputy-Chairman Frank Dostal, a German songwriter who had one international hit back in 1970, recently blasted the European Commission and Commissioner Barnier for suggesting new transparency and accountability requirements on collective rights management societies. Mr. Dostal claims Commissioner Barnier is ‘preaching the death of rock and roll’. His criticism is echoed by lawyers working for collecting societies in Denmark wary of the EU Commission’s efforts to promote transparency and accountability on large bureaucratic collecting societies such as GEMA.
“GEMA and their ‘rentier artists’ like Mr. Dostal who have important financial interests at stake in preserving the old collective rights management system, do not represent the vast majority of upcoming artists who demand new EU legislation to increase the transparency and accountability of collecting societies beyond the benefit of the top-earning and already established rentier artists like Mr. Dostal.
Collecting societies’ cronies need to make room for the young creators who are, more than ever, in need of the support of their collecting societies. Younison and the 21st Century emerging artists we represent hold very differing views to Mr. Dostal and his associates” warns Younison director, Kelvin Smits.
Younison maintains that it is in the interest of everyone in the music business, big or small, to have a transparent and accountable system governing the commercialization of individual artist’s works, including the creation of a global repertoire database which will help end the corruption and fragmentation hampering the European online music market. It is in the interest of EU cultural diversity to embrace technology and transparency so that artists are promptly and fairly remunerated for the use of their music.
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