On Thursday, 6 November 2014
1. Why do you think music artists and other people working in the media are concerned about the digital reproduction of their work?
When a music artist produces a new song/album, they need to ensure that it is copywrited straight away so their work cannot be stolen or copied and used by someone else. Copywrite is also put in place so that if someone does create something too similar or it has been copied that the artist/s will be notified as soon as this is found.
A huge problem for artists are their work being downloaded by consumers, they tend to have these concerns because a lot of music is downloaded/streamed illegally by consumers for free, the more that this happens the more likely that the artists are going to be paid less for their music as most consumers are able to have this music for free. Some of the music streaming companies like spotify do not pay the artists that are providing the music much money at all. This is quite a big worry for many artists as their music is being heard but they are not receiving the money that they really deserve. If spotify made the decision to raise the price of what customers have to pay to stream this music, this would then mean that they would receive more money which could and should be used to pay artists a more fair deal for their music that is being streamed. It will also lead to more artists being happier for their music to be streamed as they would receive a fair amount of money for it.
The website fairplayforcreators (linked with PRS). PRS have created this website to help keep consumers informed of recent news on the issues of artists not receiving enough royalties. Fairplayforcreators keeps its readers informed and educated on what PRS are trying to achieve. The website clearly states what their aims are, they want consumers to be able to enjoy the music for free, they also believe that artists should recieve a fair amount of money for what they are producing. The reason that concerns first arose over music not being free and available to customers is because google removed an artist/band from YouTube and no longer made it available to consumers for free. PRS also believe that google should pay the artists a fair wage to keep them on YouTube.
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