Earlier today the UK government convened Creator Remuneration Working Group met for the first time. Part of the ongoing Economics Of Music Streaming programme of work, this group will consider the issues regarding how music-makers are paid when their music…
The Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee in the UK Parliament has published a new report on creator remuneration. The CMM has issued the following initial response… We welcome this new report from the Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee,…
The UK Intellectual Property Office has published its report on the potential economic impact of equitable remuneration being applied to streaming revenue. The CMM has issued the following initial response… This report was commissioned by the IPO in 2021 with…
The Council Of Music Makers welcomes the Transparency Code that has been agreed by the UK music industry today. Although the commitments in the code are modest, it provides a framework that can be used to start tackling the “systemic…
As a new year gets underway, we have been reading with interest the upbeat new year messages written by the bosses of some of the major music companies, and the positive facts and figures being published about the recorded music…
The Council Of Music Makers calls on MPs to hold the music industry’s feet to the fire to ensure artists, songwriters, musicians and producers get a fair deal from music streaming. The Council Of Music Makers, which brings together representative…
This is an end-of-year update on the economics of music streaming work that was initiated by the 2021 inquiry in the UK Parliament. THE STORY SO FARIn July 2021, the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee in the UK…
This is the scorecard CMM created to track progress in the ongoing Economics Of Music Streaming work that was initiated by the 2021 inquiry led by the Digital, Culture, Media & Sport Select Committee in the UK Parliament. We regularly…
This is an open letter from the Council Of Music Makers on the announcement that the Department For Culture, Media & Sport has convened a roundtable on AI and the creative industries. We greatly welcome the acknowledgement from Culture Secretary Lucy Frazer…
The Council Of Music Makers will curate a day of sessions as part of the conference at The Great Escape in Brighton next May. The CMM presented sessions will take place on Thursday 16 May and put the focus on…