FIM

While music stream­ing ser­vices are sig­nif­i­cant­ly on the increase and tak­ing the place of tra­di­tion­al radio as a spe­cial chan­nel of access to online music, more and more artists are open­ly speak­ing out to claim a fair share of rev­enues gen­er­at­ed by the exploita­tion of their record­ings on the Internet.

The Fair Internet cam­paign –of which FIM is one of the part­ners– is gain­ing ground at European lev­el, and through it we hope to see European Union insti­tu­tions tak­ing per­form­ers’ legit­i­mate expec­ta­tions into account. Even so, it is absolute­ly essen­tial to pro­mote these prin­ci­ples in the rest of the world as well. Wherever they are and in their immense major­i­ty, artists have to face the same prob­lem: mak­ing their music avail­able on demand is not pro­vid­ing them with any decent remu­ner­a­tion. This sit­u­a­tion has become unbearable.

After the Budapest Conference orga­nized joint­ly with MZTSZ and EJI on 20 – 21 November 2014, FIM and its Japanese mem­ber union MUJ are propos­ing a new event along these lines in Tokyo (Japan) on 16 – 17 December 2015. This con­fer­ence will bring togeth­er experts from the sec­tor and rep­re­sen­ta­tives of Asian musi­cians and the rest of the world to present and pro­mote fair solu­tions which will enable all the music sec­tor, and per­form­ers in par­tic­u­lar, to ben­e­fit from the resources gen­er­at­ed by the online market.

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