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Blog: Policy Mashup at SXSW

Wow. We just wrapped up a panel here at SXSW called Creative Capitol: Music, Culture and Policy Under Obama, and it was amazing. Here’s what the roster looked like:

Michael Bracy Policy Director, Future of Music Coalition
Rachel Goslins President’s Committee on the Arts & Humanities

Austin Schlick General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission

Tim Tuten Hideout/Department of Education

Christine Varney Assistant Attorney General for Antitrust, Department of Justice

This panel of Beltway peeps covered a LOT of ground, from net neutrality and broadband expansion to music education to the Live Nation/Ticketmaster merger to the Obama family’s dancing chops. It would be impossible to do a full rundown, but you can check out our Twitter feed (hashtag #SXSW) for a realtime, 140-character play-by-play. read more

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Posted by Casey on March 18, 2010 Tags:

Press Release: FMC Statement on the National Broadband Plan

March 15, 2010
FMC’s statment on the FCC’s National Broadband Plan, which aims to provide greater access to quality, affordable high-speed internet. read more
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Blog: The World at Your Fingertips: Bringing Broadband Home

Broadband. If you’ve been reading this blog, you know that we think it’s pretty important. These days, you need access to the internet for pretty much everything from looking for a job to booking a plane ticket. Yet too many Americans lack a connection to this essential service.

High-speed internet is crucial to the music community, too — particularly artists who depend on the web to do everything from planning tours to selling music and merch to connecting with audiences directly. And fans use it to keep up on and spread the word about their favorite acts in real-time. For all these reasons and more, it’s clear that the future of music is online.

Expanding access to the most powerful communications tool of our time will help upcoming generations of artists participate in a legitimate digital music marketplace that rewards creators and fans. read more

Posted by Casey on February 16, 2010 Tags:

Press Mention: R.E.M.: Everybody Hurts (without network neutrality)

By Nate Anderson   Ars Technica, Jan 12 2010

Net neutrality isn’t just an issue for policy wonks and communications lawyers, and the boys from R.E.M. want the FCC to know just how crucial a neutral ‘Net remains for artists of all stripes. Or, to put it another way: it’s the end of the world as we know it (without network neutrality).

The effort to get bands involved in the process has been an ongoing one for the Future of Music Coalition, which is behind the latest push to have artists weigh in before the comment period closes soon. The Coalition has put together a very nice tool for crafting and submitting comments to the FCC—and it has the great virtue of providing guidance without offering a form letter as an option. read more

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Press Mention: Future Of Music Coalition Collects Net-Neutrality Comments

By John Eggerton   Multichannel News, Jan 08 2010

The Future of Music Coalition is collecting network neutrality shout-outs from musicians, including R.E.M., Pearl Jam and Dead Prez among others, on a new Web site, http://futureofmusic.org/fccopeninternet.

The group has long supported codifying network neutrality principles (it launched Rock the Net in 2007). The FCC’s Democratic majority is proposing to do just that in a proposed rulemaking launched in October. read more

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Press Mention: Radio Survivor

By Matthew Lasar   FCC, music, politix, Jan 08 2010

The Future of Music Coalition has a small boatload of classy crossover music groups sending letters to the Federal Communications Commission in support of tougher net neutrality rules. They include R.E.M., the woodwind quintet Imani Winds, and the Kronos Quartet.

Future of Music has a whole web page dedicated to helping musicians file comments with the agency on the issue. The guide comes complete with the do’s and don’ts of FCC feedback. “Comments like ‘Comcast sux!’ may be funny but are not helpful in the FCC crafting better policy, so try to make your critiques productive,” FOM warns. read more

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Press Mention: Music Industry Group Creates Net Neutrality Website

By John Eggerton   Broadcast Newsroom, Jan 08 2010

The Future of Music Coalition is collecting network neutrality shout-outs from musicians, including R.E.M., Pearl Jam, Dead Presidents, and others on a new Web site.The group has long supported codifying network neutrality principles ( it launched Rock the Net in 2007). The FCC’s Democratic majority is proposing to do just that in a proposed rulemaking launched in October. read more

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Blog: A Fine Showing for the Open Internet

We’re blown away by the responses we’ve gotten from our FCC Comments Tool, which helps musicians and indie labels file with the FCC in their historic net neutrality rulemaking proceeding. (The initial comments phase closed on Jan 14, but we’re keeping the tool active through the reply comments period, which has a deadline of March 5.)

We’re also really proud to have filed joint comments with a broad array of independent creator organizations who believe that the open internet is crucial to our ability to compete in a legitimate digital marketplace. read more

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Posted by Casey on January 15, 2010 Tags:

Press Release: Independent Creator Organizations Offer Comments in FCC Internet Proceeding

Groups underscore the importance of “net neutrality” in the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Preserving an Open Internet
January 15, 2009
Washington, D.C.– On January 14, 2010, a broad array of independent creator organizations filed comments in the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Preserving an Open Internet (GN Docket No. 09-191). The comments demonstrated the need for enforceable net neutrality rules to ensure that all creators — regardless of size, affiliation or category — can compete in a legitimate digital marketplace. read more
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Filing: Comments of Independent Creator Organizations in FCC Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Preserving an Open Internet

Jan 14 2010

On January 14, 2010, a broad array of independent creator organizations, including Future of Music Coalition, filed comments in the FCC’s Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Preserving an Open Internet. The comments demonstrated the need for enforceable net neutrality rules to ensure that all creators — regardless of size, affiliation or category — can compete in a legitimate digital marketplace.

The FCC sought public input on draft rules that would codify and supplement existing principles to safeguard the Internet’s openness. This process is intended to secure and protect the many economic and social benefits of the open Internet by preventing anyone from restricting the free flow of lawful content and applications online.

According to the FCC, the goal of the proceeding is to adopt “clear, enforceable, common sense rules of the road” meant to keep the door open for continued innovation online, while allowing users access to the broad range of ideas and services today’s internet provides.

The groups submitting comments described how the cultural sector is using the open internet to forge the future for entertainment and creative expression.

Co-signers include American Composers Forum, American Music Center, Center for Creative Voices in Media, Film Independent, Fractured Atlas, Future of Music Coalition, International Documentary Association, International Music Manager’s Forum, Just Plain Folks, Meet the Composer, Nacional Records, National Alliance for Media Art and Culture, and Writers Guild of America West. read more

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