March 12, 2009
Rock stars wade into YouTube
As it seems the YouTube war with the UK music industry is about to spread to MySpace, more than 150 artists from bands such as Radiohead and Blur are joining the fight for digital rights, reports SiliconRepublic.
The artists, led by singer Billy Bragg and Blur drummer David Rowntree under the featured Artists’ Coalition (FAC), will converge on London today to push for a fairer deal for musicians.
Writing in The Guardian newspaper yesterday, Bragg pointed out: “The potential, particularly for new talent, is incredible. Unfortunately, for us artists, not everyone in the music industry shares this view.
“The major labels seem to see the internet as a threat, not just in their self-defeating attempts to criminalise our fans for sharing our music with others, but also in their determination to cling to the old way of doing things.
“Under the old business model, they took the lion’s share of the profits for doing the heavy-lifting of physical production and distribution of stock. Shamefully, some labels are still offering deals to new artists based on this notion. We live in a digital age, but we’re stuck in an analogue music industry,” Bragg fumed.
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