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Younison shocks the European commission with bare facts
Posted by Kelvin on Jun 06, 2008 at 14:20
Last week, the European Commission gathered in Brussels concerning the Levies on Private copies, the money payed for loss of sales by new technological devices.
Younison was invited as one of the 5 speakers to adress the 500 representatives of the European Countries as well as people from collecting societies and all involved in the subject.
We took this opportunity to present a small inquiry that we made the preceding weeks on the amount of money that artists get from their collecting societies concerning this levy tax, and the percentage that this made up for in the total income of the artists (check out the matrix in the download section here)...
As the figures sank in (less than 0,75% of the total income of the artists in the inquiry is attributable to the levies collected in our names ), it was apparent that this was not the outcome anyone had expected. Certainly not after the amounts that were circulating that are transferred to the collecting societies (the Levies amount to about 15-30% of the total income for the collecting societies, wich ranges in the billions of Euros).
Soon afterwards representatives of the collecting societies questioned the figures and tried to discredit the Younison initiative.
Never before have policy makers been presented to the fact that, although money gets collected, it might not be going in the right direction.
Collecting societies are the spokesperson as well as the collectors for the artists, and thus are biassed.
It is here that we from Younison try and push the envelope to demand transparency and a technological system so we can monitor and track our sales and our income.
It is therefor of utmost importance that we spread our action radius, and ask you the artist, to join in our inquiry, and - confidentially of course- share with us your earnings from collecting societies.
Only that way we can prove that there is a flaw in the system ,and that it needs to be adressed preferably to sooner than later...
I hope you will find the time and the trust to participate in this european survey, and help change the future for all !
Thanks
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