Fair Play for Creators

I just want a fair deal please.

Thankyou for organizing a voice for creators. We must protect ourselves against companies who want to see a gradual erosion of our rights.

Our creations have great value for them, yet they do not want to pay us fairly. We're living in a time when companies are challenging the worth of our creations, courts are making rulings, usually in our favour. Precedents are being set that will shape the future of copyright worth. We must be united and strong in our diligent pursuit of fair play.

Great and well needed forum for us all I think! Thanks!! One Voice!!

Count me in! :)

BRING THE MUSIC BACK GUYS!!

Millions of online views generating ad revenue, but insufficient compensation for the creators of the content. It's not rocket science. Fair pay for play.

Online music businesses receive vast remunerations for the time they have invested in their projects. The creative resources they utilise in order to make their profit, should likewise be rewarded.

I don't earn anything from my music!

I fully support fair play for creators and what it stands for, and am sure I will be using it in the future.

I'm a music agent that focuses on up and coming/developing talent.

Over 600,000 plays of my music and video on YouTube and not a single penny in my pocket. Nothing by the big boys standards, but we should get paid for the streaming of our music.

We live in scarcity. Pay us.

Music has enabled these corporate giants to grow into what they are today. In my opinion these moguls now earning millions out of OUR hard work have devalued the very thing that made them what they are today. I’ve been in the music business as a writer and publisher for over twenty five years and in the last ten years have seen many prolific writers / musicians and arrangers just ‘give up’ because they can no longer survive financially. Come on Google. If you don’t start paying us writers a fair percentage on the music that keeps YOU alive, you’ll soon have no great ‘musical content providers’ at all.

At SPCO we support artists on a day to day basis. We advice every one we encounter to protect their work by becoming PRS for Music members. Keep up the good work.

I work as a graphic designer in the music business.

If your business is helped by playing music please help the creator. It's only fair

In an age when original music is being taken for granted, with commission fees under pressure, the advent of web-based 'royalty-free' music and commissioners trying to take the publisher's share, this initiative is more important than ever, and I support it.

Thumbs Up for you Campaign!

I fully support this forum for songwriters, musicians etc. It's all too easy for intellectual property to be misused or plagiarised - without any just consideration

Just a fan of great music (e.g. Jem Godfrey) and greatly saddened by the way big business thinks it can just keep taking from anyone and everyone.

Dickens was vilified for demanding payment for his work when novels were truly novel. Like Dickens, we can't afford to lose this battle to make a living from our work. My support is wholehearted.

I pledge my support for the Fair Play for Creators campaign Touch My Hand

Google should cough up like anyone else. It's not as if they haven't got any money!

I feel that Google are taking liberties

This is a great idea for a young producer like me who spend a lot of money to get a song done to some of the money back before making it big

I totally agree that the song/music writers art form, should receive fair compensation in all aspects concerning it's use in any media arena.

It is incredible, but a sad indictment of modern life that a culture has evolved where people think that music is, or should be free. This is a mindset that has zero or little guilt and lacks integrity for exploiting songwriters, artists, creators, and authors. Creators only ask to be paid their fair share like everyone else who give their services, ideas, inventions or creations.

Stick to your guns on this and another fairer version of Google will emerge, soon.

However privileged and lucky a writer or composer might be viewed as by the general public, to be making a living out of something they love doing; if they are not paid for what they produce, they will be forced to turn their hand to something else and bit by bit new music would die.

You play, you pay, unless I say, it's OK!

The way things are going, recorded music/video may be free to the consumer in most instances in the foreseeable future. The communications companies, file hosting sites and online giants benefit hugely and it is of utmost importance that fair licensing is put in place to protect creators in a changing world. My debut album was recently pirated so I know this only too well.

It is only fair that music creators should be recompensed for the services they provide as in any other walk of life

Google said it would 'do no evil'.

It is essential that payment is made for any and all use of music on or through the internet. Musicians need to be paid just like anyone else.

Keep fighting the good fight!

As a singer, song writer and producer I am pledging my support to the Fair Play for Creators campaign to the fullness.

I support this because I am working with young musicians of the future who might never become song writers if they have to do something else to pay the bills

Hard enough as it is.

It's simple really - if you use other people's talent and effort to make you money, you should pay them. If you want to use other people's talent and effort for charity, ask their permission first and respect their answer.