Canadian Artists are cool.
http://www.musiccreators.ca/
A NEW VOICE
We are a growing coalition of Canadian music creators who share the common goal of having our voices heard about the laws and policies that affect our livelihoods. We are the people who actually create Canadian music. Without us, there would be no music for copyright laws to protect.
Until now, a group of multinational record labels has done most of the talking about what Canadian artists need out of copyright. Record companies and music publishers are not our enemies, but let’s be clear: lobbyists for major labels are looking out for their shareholders, and seldom speak for Canadian artists. Legislative proposals that would facilitate lawsuits against our fans or increase the labels’ control over the enjoyment of music are made not in our names, but on behalf of the labels’ foreign parent companies.
They clearly "get it." When I was growing up I remember the comedy sketches about The Great White North that painted Canadians as total hicks compared to us sophisticated Americans. These days it's the American public that's ignorant and unsophisticated, while the Canadians set the example for the rest of the world.
While this group represents Canadian musicians, who are probably a small percentage of the Canadian population as a whole, they are still products of their society. I'll go out on a limb and guess that their education system hasn't failed them, that they've grown up with an awareness of the world around them and not just to be concerned about themselves. The fact that there are more musicians here in the US, but no such association has formed here yet, is quite telling. Ah well. Go Canada! Perhaps more musicians will follow your lead, and put the lobbyists in their place, and put an end to the idiocy of draconian copyright laws.
Music, art, books, plays, ideas - none of these human creations have any value at all until they are shared. If you solve the riddle of Life, the Universe, and Everything but never tell another soul, taking it with you to your grave, then your discovery is worthless. If you write the most beautiful song in all of history, but never sing it for anyone else, then it may as well have never been written at all. No abstract creation has any intrinsic value; its value is realized only thru dissemination. The RIAA/MPAA exists to control the distribution of our creativity, and to derive monetary profit from that. Once upon a time, they had a useful reason to exist, when it was difficult for an individual to spread their creations on their own. But today, with instantaneous global communication, the need for dedicated distribution agents is long gone. They're middlemen in a world that no longer needs them. Time to leave them behind for good.
A NEW VOICE
We are a growing coalition of Canadian music creators who share the common goal of having our voices heard about the laws and policies that affect our livelihoods. We are the people who actually create Canadian music. Without us, there would be no music for copyright laws to protect.
Until now, a group of multinational record labels has done most of the talking about what Canadian artists need out of copyright. Record companies and music publishers are not our enemies, but let’s be clear: lobbyists for major labels are looking out for their shareholders, and seldom speak for Canadian artists. Legislative proposals that would facilitate lawsuits against our fans or increase the labels’ control over the enjoyment of music are made not in our names, but on behalf of the labels’ foreign parent companies.
They clearly "get it." When I was growing up I remember the comedy sketches about The Great White North that painted Canadians as total hicks compared to us sophisticated Americans. These days it's the American public that's ignorant and unsophisticated, while the Canadians set the example for the rest of the world.
While this group represents Canadian musicians, who are probably a small percentage of the Canadian population as a whole, they are still products of their society. I'll go out on a limb and guess that their education system hasn't failed them, that they've grown up with an awareness of the world around them and not just to be concerned about themselves. The fact that there are more musicians here in the US, but no such association has formed here yet, is quite telling. Ah well. Go Canada! Perhaps more musicians will follow your lead, and put the lobbyists in their place, and put an end to the idiocy of draconian copyright laws.
Music, art, books, plays, ideas - none of these human creations have any value at all until they are shared. If you solve the riddle of Life, the Universe, and Everything but never tell another soul, taking it with you to your grave, then your discovery is worthless. If you write the most beautiful song in all of history, but never sing it for anyone else, then it may as well have never been written at all. No abstract creation has any intrinsic value; its value is realized only thru dissemination. The RIAA/MPAA exists to control the distribution of our creativity, and to derive monetary profit from that. Once upon a time, they had a useful reason to exist, when it was difficult for an individual to spread their creations on their own. But today, with instantaneous global communication, the need for dedicated distribution agents is long gone. They're middlemen in a world that no longer needs them. Time to leave them behind for good.