Overheard @ Future Of Music Summit Day 1 #FMC13
Today we'll be streaming day #2 of The Future Of Music Summit live from DC starting around 9AM ET today. Here are some highights from day #1:
- Peter Jenner, artist manager: "Artists have to aggregate, work together to get paid. It might involve unions, collection action." (via @gregkot)
- Jim Griffin: "Cannot have global music market without globally unique identifiers and enumeration" (via @future_of_music)
MORE:
- Average touring indie artist loses money on touring. [Defnitely true for all but 1-person acts] (via @FairMusicDC0
- [The] answer isn't to dismantle system of streaming, but to ensure artists are paid fairly. (via @sundbetter)
- #FMC13 panelists about copyright royalty rates seem to agree that Pandora pays too much. What happened to the "Pandora is evil" thesis? (via @robpegoraro)
- "It's never been better to be a creator… except for the whole making-a-living business. (via @shadesofsolveig)
- "Copyright is about empowerment. Might be the only asset the author has in an economic conversation." (via @_aka_hige)
- @emwizzle says, "What's exciting about [streaming] is that it's legal." (via @esatts)