If the most powerful woman in the music industry can’t control the problem of unregulated resale, clearly that’s an indication that elected officials have to step up. That neoliberal, ‘let the market take care of itself’ approach has profoundly failed artists and consumers.”
Read More"She could choose a different venue if she isn't happy with a particular partner that they're dealing with. But then she would have to skip the market in a lot of these cases, because there's only one stadium in that city,"
Read MoreThe Washington, D.C.-based artist advocacy nonprofit Future of Music Coalition has been fighting for healthcare for musicians for two decades, and first publicly supported a single-payer system back in 2003. Director Kevin Erickson acknowledged that universal healthcare wouldn’t take care of all of a musician’s financial needs, particularly with regards to specialized mental healthcare, but it would undoubtedly help. “A sense that everybody has a safety net would allow for a feeling of creative freedom as well,” Erickson said.
Read More“There’s a bigger problem in antitrust with behavioral remedies generally[…]they force competitors, artists, and venues who don’t have a lot of resources or a sophisticated understanding of what is and isn’t legal to perform this unpaid labor of being the cops and monitoring for violations.”
Read More“COVID disinformation, including the kind of disinformation that Joe Rogan is actively spreading, that Spotify is commissioning him to do, is actively harming musicians right now.”
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