Glenn Peoples, Senior Editorial Analyst at Billboard Magazine, talks about the strengths and weaknesses he sees in the Future of Music’s Artist Principles. He merits the Artist Principles for pointing out the lack of tansparency in music industry accounting, and echos the FMC’s position that musicians deserve to know the details of the profits made off of their work. But Peoples also suggests that government regulation might hamper the industry more than it would help, and offers another position on how relations between artists and record labels should change.

<!— @page { margin: 0.79in } P { margin-bottom: 0.Tom Roe, of the nonprofit arts organization free103point9, talks about the organization’s work to secure licensing for the New York area radio station, WGXC. Free103point9 is an arts organization that cultivates “transmission arts” or arts that rely on radio or other broadcast mediums to be created and experienced. Roe discusses how the new radio station will be community focused and controlled, and will incorporate local news, music and interviews. Roe suggests that the artists that are the foundation of the organization will also be able to use the station as a platform to share and express their ideas. read more