Fair Play for Creators

We need to stop illegal downloads NOW!!!

I am delighted to give you my support. This has been a long time coming!!

I think it's a great idea, because young people are growing up in a culture of not knowing what it's like to pay for music and that has to stop. If we want music to keep going forward, writers have to be paid.

It's about honest reward as well as fair play!

Long live PRS for Music!

If you don't support music makers, who's going to make the music?

What does it take for business to pay people for their creativity?

The creative industries are often taken for granted, but what would life be like without them? It is vitally important that creators are paid fairly for the use of their work - it's their job! Without fair royalty payments for use of music, we will inevitably slip further into a culture that de-values creative arts and simultaneously into a situation where artists can less and less rely on their art form to earn a living, and hence quality of output will inevitably fall. Pay fair!!

I think it’s an outrage that YouTube won’t pay a small royalty for airing a video. The amount of viewing figures they receive and the advertising they are now able to use makes this a disgrace.

Music makes your day month, year, life. Lets make sure those who give so much joy get a little back fro their contribution to the soundtrack of your life

Respect the value of music

A very worthy cause - I support this fully

Fair play to songwriters...we do all the hard work and should receive the recognition both artistically and financially. In the commercial world of entertainment our input of originality is paramount..give credit where credit is due.

What most people fail to realise is that song writers put a lot of their heart, soul and hard work into their music. This should be rewarded accordingly. From conception to completion, there is a lot of effort and polishing that goes into a piece.

If YouTube paid songwriters their Royalties, they would benefit from more videos, the song writers would get some payment and the fans would get the music they love. It would then be a win-win situation for everyone.

I fully support the position of PRS for Music

Supporting PRS for Music

Any creator of original works that are used to enhance another medium should be entitled to residuals from that use.

FAIR PLAY For hard working creators!

I Love PRS for Music!

Life is hard enough for a musician without them having to lose the rights and legal payment for their own songs- especially when it's being denied by multi-million pound companies! If these companies want to use new and fresh music, they should have to pay for it! Why are musicians in 2009 still being made to give their work away for free?

Everybody has to eat.

I believe Google will eventually do the right thing and share their vast wealth.

We just need some open dialogue and skillful negotiation that makes it worthwhile for both Google and us struggling composers.

ImageSound fully supports your fight in this.

We are the ones who do the work, we should get fair recompense! There is a lot of publicity about video/DVD piracy, let's see a similar campaign for our media rights!

Keep up the good work

As a composer I fully support the PRS for Music campaign for royalties to be paid to musicians whenever appropriate. This is essential for the nourishment of talent and the continuing production of new music.

YouTube is a great site, and do a great service for musicians and songwriters, but it's only fair that those writer- performers should receive some form of royalty for the use of their work. I hope both sides reach agreement, because it would be mutually beneficial to do so.

That's great news. I support this wholeheartedly.

Absolutely. Fullest support. We need to be in partnership with these people not at war.... they need us because good music is what keeps the visitors coming.

Without content these sites are nothing.

If people value music and want to see the art form continue then artists need to be paid what they're due. Otherwise the smaller and developing acts are really gonna struggle, we'll be left with the giants only, just the arena bands....no one want to see that!

I believe that all broadcasters should pay a fair rate for their content. I do not see why an exception should be made for Google.

It’s well worth it and brings the youngsters closer together in the music world.

Medina Music Management supports PRS for Music in their aim to ensure music creators are receiving the royalties due to them, and believe in securing this the future of the music industry is secured also.

I pledge my support for the Fair Play for Creators campaign

I wish to add my support to the Fair Play for Creators Campaign

I fully support this initiative by PRS for Music

The problem is as always generating enough interest to drive traffic to your online presence. If major artists with expensive marketing and promotion only make a fraction of sales then what hope for the rest of us. In reality nothings changed for the majority of musicians.

Sites like YouTube rely on original content for their existence, perhaps they should think more carefully about this and invest in the creators of music.