Get musical collecting societies to compete for musicians, reform to be friendler to the Internet, legalize CC and side-agreements, and be more accountable.

Summary description

Create an informative Web site explaining the rights and restrictions of each collecting society contract. Let musicians know they have options, and get musicians to lobby societies to change.

Detailed description

Steps in this project:

1) organize interested group, discuss on cc-wg-cs email list.

2) put together web site, localized for each country participating

3) talk with collecting societies about this project, try to get them to commit to liberalizing.

4) publicize and promote the web site

Category

Policy/law

Project end date

4/5/2008 (164 days ago)

Creation date

7/7/2007 15:57

Development stage

deployment

city

N/a

country

International

Other countries

International 

Main Language

English

Node Admin

johnbuckman

Number of people involved

5

External URL

tags: N/a International policy-law dac gema sacem prs mcps sicam

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