ASCAP 10-point ‘Bill of Rights’
p2pnet news | Music:- ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) will offer up a 10-point manifesto for songwriters and composers, “to insure musicians get paid for music distributed on the Web,” says Portfolio.
In another story, “In the face of widespread music piracy and rapidly declining CD sales, the recording industry is facing its biggest crisis ever,” it says, going on:
ASCAP’s artist bill of rights – part of a 32-page position paper – says bluntly: “The creative people who bring vital art forms like music to life have the right to share in the profits generated by their work and earn a living from uses of their work.”
The document states >>>
1. We have the right to be compensated for the use of our creative works, and share in the revenues that they generate.
2. We have the right to license our works and control the ways in which they are used.
3. We have the right to withhold permission for uses of our works on artistic, economic or philosophical grounds.
4. We have the right to protect our creative works to the fullest extent of the law from all forms of piracy, theft and unauthorized use, which deprive us of our right to earn a living based on our creativity.
5. We have the right to choose when and where our creative works may be used for free.
6. We have the right to develop, document and distribute our works through new media channels while retaining the right to a share in all associated profits.
7. We have the right to choose the organizations we want to represent us and to join our voices together to protect our rights and negotiate for the value of our music.
8. We have the right to earn compensation from all types of “performances,” including direct, live renditions as well as indirect recordings, broadcasts, digital streams, and more.
9. We have the right to decline participation in business models that require us to relinquish all or part of our creative rights – or which do not respect our right to be compensated for our work.
10. We have the right to advocate for strong laws protecting our creative works, and demand that our government vigorously uphold and protect our rights.
Stay tuned.
Portfolio – A Songwriters’ Bill of Rights, April 10, 2008
another story – Battle Hymn, April 10, 2008
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April 10th, 2008 at 7:34 am
B-b-b-b-bullshit!!!
April 10th, 2008 at 9:17 am
Bullshit too. When ASCAP says “songwriter” and “arist” they mean ASCAP CONROLLER MUSIC PUBLISHERS.
At the end, the publishers get 95 percent of the cut. No one can disprove this.
April 10th, 2008 at 9:20 am
We?
Get his right. We are the publishers, not the dumb writers who give us their songs.
April 10th, 2008 at 12:32 pm
“dumb writers who give us their songs”
1. Are you retarded?
2. Lemme get this traight: because the present “publishers” (as you call them) consistently fuck over those actually CREATING what they publish (”get 95 percent of the profits! Nobody can disprove this!!”) the “solution” is to embrace methods of “distributioN” which fuck over those creating things for 100 PERCENT? That makes perfect sense to me.
The perfect solution to date-rape? Mass murder.
Makes perfect sense to me.
April 10th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
to Henry Emrich
With all due respect, can you explain what you said?
Please.
April 10th, 2008 at 6:19 pm
^^ Yes, Henry.
Would you?
Please?
Cheers!
April 10th, 2008 at 6:43 pm
I believe Henry Emrich claims that the publishers are date-raping the writers. The musicians willingly go along and end up getting fucked (not a bad analogy).
He further claims that file-sharing will kill the industry for everyone (mass murder).
This is where the analogy breaks down. There will still be a market for songs even after the horrible internet decimates the industry.
Anyway, that is how I read it.
April 10th, 2008 at 6:44 pm
Sorry, I meant writers.