11.04
On the 21/11/2009 we are inviting you to spend a day without music- a music fast – not only so that when you switch back on 24 hours later you may hear music differently but also to point OUT how much music is part of the fabric of our everyday lives. As a Music department and a music community we must get involved in the future of music, we must add our voices and ideas to the current debates about the future of music and we must recognize that there are fundamental differences between the rights of the artist –as music producers and music appreciators – and the music industry – as represented by major entertainment companies. We have to acknowledge now that a seismic shift has taken place in the distribution of music that changes fundamentally how we interact with it.
- It is time to get serious – time to remove music from the narrow confines of a commercial argument and recognize it for what it truly is: our HERITAGE.
- We have to move away from the narrow idea of music as a series of owned controllable rights, seen merely as part of the ingredients of intellectual property debates.
- We need to reject the idea that by developing these boundaries we might be able to get back to the old world order!
- Clearly the old way is not working!
- Music is part of us, our universal heritage.
- We need AN ecology of music – it is the key to our future; the flux of materials and energy through living communities.
- To save music we have to protect our musical communities, both, the music makers and the music appreciators.
- Let’s try to spend a whole day without music!
- The idea that our desire for music should herald the beginning of a major policing of our activities within the confines of our home is an anathema to most musicians and music lovers – supporting the position of Peter Mandelson – even after much debate – is simply wrong!
- We must not fall for this and we must stand fast and we must stand together to defend our rights and our freedoms and our music.
- Music needs a political agenda and a new vision, a vision that accepts the new distribution channels and broadcasters of the web2.0.
- The manufacturers of these technologies and the media corporations and the telecommunications networks are going to have to pay a new royalty and a larger royalty or levy or whatever names it will eventually have and now we need to mobilize with one voice to put this process in motion.
- Manufacturers, media corporations, and telecommunication networks and our government must combine their power to reflect this new vision and construct a balanced system of royalties that not only empowers the producers of musical content but also the loyal and ever-increasing sphere of music fans.
- November 21st 2009 will be the first day of action – we implore you to turn music off by any means necessary.
Log out – turn off – save music! Unplug make your own future!
THIS IS PART OF NO MUSIC DAY
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