Fair Play for Creators

Thank you for helping us, the writers and artistes with this. It is about time we stopped getting taken advantage of musically! DJRAP.

Royalties are the only way that recording and producing music can be a livelihood. The value of music is constantly being eroded by an attitude that it should be free to consumers, but PRS for Music represents the rights of creators to be fairly remunerated for the consumption of their work.

The fact that a multi billion pound corporation can use their position to try and influence the public into thinking that it is the 'greedy record labels, bands and PRS for Music' that are the cause of this dispute is typical of BIG BUSINESS. This is a company that has made huge profits by generating a business model around other peoples movies and music - now that they legally have to pay royalties, they are using their 'influence' to try and avoid doing that for their personal gain, nothing more...

The only way that music can continue to be developed is if we in the business maximise every income stream. They are all diminishing but diversifying. Instead of legislating against educating is key. Great idea.

YouTube are a broadcaster. They should pay a reasonable fee for their content, same as any other broadcaster.

Fair pay to play! We spend a huge amount of time and money creating music for fans.

Cheap content can only lead to poorer content and eventually to no content.

I give my wholehearted support to PRS for Music. Google are trying it on. Songwriters have historically always had to fight to be paid their fair dues. This is just another strategy to avoid paying us.

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

I support the Fair Play For Creators campaign

Music Makers provide a product for YouTube, Audience provide advertising eyeballs. The middlemen, Google, YouTube & Advertisers can cream in the middle while paying dues to the product makers and still giving a free service to viewers.

I'm sure a compromise could work if there's a total stand-off... it's a new world and all the goalposts have changed. Good luck!

It's blatantly obvious; Google will eventually dry up the supply of the substance of their content. They have understood the mass appeal of their product in the market place and are now arrogantly ignoring it. The transient nature of internet users means customers will quickly find other sources. So be it.

I uploaded quite a lot of music and video to YouTube, for people to enjoy, and I never expected Google to renege on their agreement. As if they are not rich enough already.

Excellent work, I am fully behind fair play!

Consumers don't realize that classical composers in particular can spend months even years on a symphony at a rate of a penny an hour which is less than the third world are getting not to mention hours of study. Most of us don't think about the money side but we have to live like everyone else.

This is the medium of the future, like it or not. Precedents set now will have huge ramifications.

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

I wonder if Google would give away adwords for free?

The financial value of music decreases daily and companies like Google are only adding to the problem.

To get my band's music produced it cost us not only a great deal of time and effort but also money for rehearsal studio time, recording time, mixing and mastering!!! Do the likes of Google think produced music comes out of fresh air? I fully support the campaign.

Music is worth more. We work hard to move your emotions!

Fair royalties payments for artists and creatives from the internet!

Keep up the good work PRS for Music.

The hardest thing to do is create music that is memorable and lasts the test of time. However it's easy to exploit it and it's even easier to copy it. The real art is in breathing life into it to begin with. So let's reward that creativity and not let corporate giants exploit it.

I have been a Writer and Publisher Member for 10 years and I appreciate and support you 100%.

Good luck with your endeavours and it's good to know you're looking out for us!

It's great to see that PRS for Music are holding strong in representing the rights of writers and publishers of musical works, Google et al need to realise that creators of music need to be paid a fair rate for its use!

Corporations, pay musicians. Broadcasters, broadcast independent music. Musicians, stop giving away your material for free.

Without fair compensation - no music. Without music - no life!

There is always the strategy of putting people under pressure so that in the end they will settle for less. In my view it forms part of a world-view based on the brutal economics of the industrial revolution, and its demise will go hand in hand with the necessary evolution of humanity. Large corporations are a bit sluggish to spot this but their people often buy Fair Trade.

Would we be discussing fairness if people chose to walk out of stores with a bunch of albums without even considering paying for them? I don´t think so. Public awareness is the key.

I don't get paid royalties for clips of stuff I wrote either.

YouTube should pay the going rate for music as they benefit from the traffic it generates.

Musicians rely on being paid for the music they create.

There needs to be a fair system to reward copyright owners online...

I can't see the fairness in YouTube making a business (Money) based on free music and video clips. The writers of the songs suffer and I see studio after studio closing down do to poor record sales. I see a lot of people use YouTube as the player for music. They make playlists of their favorite songs and pay the songs through the stereo. How do the writers get paid for that? We need some fair play in this game...

We all gotta stick together. FAIR Play !!!