Fair Play for Creators

Glad this campaign has started. It's about time someone started to re access the current trend of devaluing music.

I am totally in agreement that as this is just yet another form of broadcasting (YouTube) to the public and therefore the broadcaster must pay royalties. They are more than happy to take the revenue generated from advertising on these type of sites and so should pay a royalty for the music used. New formats of broadcasting have been occurring since the early days of radio and we must move with the times.

I fully support this action..Why is art and music always the first to suffer under such media constraints?

I pledge my support for the Fair Play for Creators campaign.

100% behind this!

It's about time that Google realised that artists need to make a living to continue the creative process that furnishes its organisation with products that enable it to thrive.

We need to be paid for what we do and need some good old fashioned rules and regulations in place to make sure this happens!!!

The situation is clear. If Google can't afford to give music away - neither can I.

Gentle erosion of songwriter's income been going on sometime. Google's behaviour just latest example. Many young people expect music to be more or less free. A generation who don't comprehend effort/investment songwriter's make to achieve modest remuneration. This trend, continued by google, will force talented, diverse, unpigeonholeable writers to seek alternative careers and deprive us of pioneering and essential (ie less commercial) work they might otherwise have bestowed.

Why should those who supply content (without which there would be no You Tube) be asked to subsidize an unsustainable business model by its multi-billion dollar profit-making owner, Google? 'Professional' means being paid for your work: if your business can't work, Google, get a new business!

Bands and individual performers put in a great deal of time, money and effort into creating music and entertainment for everyone to enjoy, this is our work, our living. Google are bang out of order!

Fair Play for Creators!!

Without the writers, artists and composers who create the music, you wouldn't be able to sing or play it! The labourer is worthy his/her hire, remember.

Yet another example of abuse of intellectual property, always underpinned by either the fuzzy idea that music should be free to all, or (as in this case) simple greed. The moral and legal imperatives are watertight, and Google knows this full well. How highly they value music may change if their actions lead to a significant downturn in business.

If we don't receive royalties we can't continue to make music for people to enjoy.

The Draytones think Google's actions are bang out of order. !! SUPPORT MUSICIANS !! ALLOW ARTIST THE CHANCE TO MAKE A LIVING !! x One Love x

Once again we see musicians getting a raw deal from big business if they can get away with it. What are musicians supposed to do???? Live on air?? Come on... I am not asking the earth like some greedy bankers!!! Thank goodness for PRS for Music/MCPS for looking after our interests!

With online music downloads being the most popular way to purchase music it is more important than ever that the Creators earn from internet usage. CD sales are at an all time low and a lot of smaller artists are not seeing the royalties they should. As a result most new talent wont stay in the industry as they don't see the point to selling there music and not earning. No other industry in the world would give away there product free and its unfair to ask creators to do so.

The concept of copyright as an absolute is being steadily eroded, particularly by the internet. If major organisations don't honour the concept it's difficult to expect much from individuals. Music use must always be paid for, even if the amounts are often small.

Who do Google think they are? Let THEM go into work every day for no pay - which is what they're asking ME to do!

I am a drummer and songwriter and I think we should all receive remuneration for the use of our music wherever it is used. Surely there is a law to stop them from making so much money from music and NOT paying for it? The tax man must know how much revenue they receive from advertising doesn't he?

If we don’t protect our intellectual copyright, we are shooting ourselves in the foot. Look at the Record industries failure to recognize & control the internet distribution of musical content,and who is paying for it now? the artist & songwriter. If we don't take a stand now against companies like You Tube we are all gonna have to find proper jobs.

Only when all writers have starved to death will politicians listen.

Let's face it, we're all musical tarts trying to turn an honest trick. Nobody does it for nothing. Do they?

YouTube has profited from broadcasting music. There is no question that they should pay to do so. Google/youTube CAN afford to pay some amount of royalty. If they don't, the music industry will move elsewhere. Despite an audience which has come to expect free entertainment, there is a way to make a living from our work. Google/YouTube is disposable and will find itself rather colorless without professionally made music and videos. Another online company will thrive.

I fully support 'PRS for Music' in their Fair Play for Creators campaign.

One of the founding tenets of Google was "Don't be Evil". Exploiting our music in order to provide listeners to advertisers without cutting us in on the revenues is evil.

This sounds fair and square to me. I have posted many videos and songs on the internet. It would be great to get paid for our work, considering we create material that generates traffick to these websites.

Expose the widely-held belief that YouTube is some kind of quasi-charity providing the service out of the goodness of their own hearts. Push the fact that they collect and distribute "Aggregated non-personal information" [deep inside their privacy policy] to third parties for cash. That's where the profit is; therefore that's what creators should be getting a share of.

GREEDY GOOGLE! It's appalling that you fail to recognise the importance of music.

I am 100% with this cause! The right of the creators must be respected!

Google is a distributor of music, as much as any TV channel or radio station, it derives advertising revenue from the exploitation in part from copyrighted material, it is illegal and morally wrong to distribute these materials without due compensation to the originators.

People are using the internet to hear our music, Google should realise it is fair that we are paid as they can advertise to people while they are online and chances are that they'll look at some other stuff online too, which will make Google money.

They will only be happy when we are paid zero!!

The way in which music is consumed is changing rapidly and there needs to be some assurance that music retains its value. This is in the interest of the creator and the consumer.

Music takes skill, energy and time to create. It is a highly valued and important part of human life. Its creators should be rewarded accordingly.

If music be the food of love, PAY!

Being a musician, producing a record, and make music available to people to listen is a big effort, demands a lot of time and money. Multi millionaire companies like Google must appreciate this, and stop making ridiculous profit from artists, like us struggling to pay our rents.

Writers, composers and performers must get payments for their work every time they are used online. The record sales have been replaced by online services and the structures must adapt to the new system.

Almost every video uploaded to YouTube contains copyright music and this has very much contributed to its success. The public's notion that music is somehow free and valueless is already damaging music and having a knock-on effect to up and coming artists. Other people's hard work, inspiration and creativity is helping to draw traffic and earn Google vast advertising revenues. It's time for Google to acknowledged the value of music in every sense, and compensate its creators fairly!

If Google is making money from advertising revenue & one of the main draws of YouTube is the music available there, royalties must be paid as a matter of moral concern. Just about every new piece of music appears on YouTube with a single screen video within days of its release. Don't host such videos or pay up...simple.

The hours of which I play my music to become proficient, the thousands of dollars I pay to record it, then someone copies it, steals it, watches it or passes it on without so much as a thought to where it came from.

Another example of the endless corporate exploitation in our business, this needs to put right a.s.a.p.

Without music there is not a huge proportion of the quality content on YouTube and similar sites. Without content there are no users or profit for these huge corporations. Time to pay what's fair!

Surely Google can afford to pay artists royalties for use of their music when they make billions in profit. It's one thing if your Sting or Madonna who can probably afford to give the extra publicity for free, but what about all the unsigned acts which are self financing and smaller indy label bands who don't have huge publishing deals and have no control over the use of their music?

I find Google’s recent decision to pull music content from its site absolutely abhorrent and the most cynical kind of manipulation. these kind of bully boy tactics must be resisted vehemently by all writers, composers and musicians in an effort to safeguard not just our own ability to make a living from all our hard work but also the very future of creative arts, it goes without saying that I offer my full support.

It would be only fair to be compensated for the hard work musicians put into their music. The going rates A pays out are laughable. Having said that, I think the whole music industry has to rethink their way of doing business. The free illegal downloading for example could be tackled by the industry (with political help and help from the collecting societies) by making the internet providers a part of the collecting mechanism.