FIM

“PERFORMERS DEMAND THEIR FAIR SHARE OF REVENUES

Online music ser­vices have trans­formed the music indus­try, but per­form­ing artists are not get­ting their pro­por­tion­ate share from revenues.

Modern leg­is­la­tion gives per­form­ing artists the right to autho­rise the mak­ing avail­able of their per­for­mances on the Internet or oth­er net­works, and to be remu­ner­at­ed for such use.

The remu­ner­a­tion of per­form­ing artists for such use of their con­tri­bu­tion should be fair, pro­por­tion­al to its val­ue and in bal­ance with oth­er con­trib­u­tors. A 50 – 50 shar­ing of online rev­enues with record pro­duc­ers cer­tain­ly meets these criteria.

Currently, this is far from being the case. The share per­form­ing artists receive from online uses is nei­ther fair, nor pro­por­tion­al to its val­ue, nor bal­anced with oth­er contributors.

This sit­u­a­tion must be reme­died. New frame­works must be imag­ined, devel­oped and pro­mot­ed in order to estab­lish an envi­ron­ment that is as fair to per­form­ers as to the oth­er par­ties con­cerned, includ­ing consumers.

To this end, the par­tic­i­pants of the FIM con­fer­ence on online music held in Budapest on November 20 – 21, 2014 call upon per­form­ers and their rep­re­sen­ta­tives to join them in cre­at­ing the widest pos­si­ble coali­tion of artists aim­ing to achieve fair, pro­por­tion­al and bal­anced remu­ner­a­tion for the online use of their per­for­mances by all appro­pri­ate means sup­port­ed by their community.”

Budapest, November 21, 2014

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