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On Monday night at the APRA Music Awards in Brisbane, I was awarded the Ted Albert Award for my contribution to the music industry. I am deeply honoured that my work has been recognised, including my work as an advocate for musicians’ rights. I have worked for many years to ensure music creators' rights are safeguarded and that they receive an economic reward when their work is used by others. I educate a lot of young musicians. They want to know what it takes to have a career in the industry. I talk about the length of time that it takes to build the skills to create songs and recordings; about the discipline of rehearsal; management skills to keep bands on the road and the hunger and tenacity they will need through the years. Then I ask them to consider copyright laws and how they affect musicians. "Make sure you are paid. You need to know what your rights are, how you will be remunerated for the use of those rights. You need to know how the payments are collected and passed on to you. You need to know what you can do if you find your work has been taken without your permission." Advertisement But sadly, it is impossibly hard for musicians in Australia to follow that last piece of advice. The problem is that their work is being used without permission or payment in the online environment. And this has being going on for far too long. This is not about bagging the internet. I love that musicians find new audiences and fans online. I love it when people first discover the Go-Betweens online. But the problem is that the discovery of a band on the net may not be made through a licensed service which gives back to the musicians. In Australia, there is very little that a musician can do to stop illegal streaming and downloading sites from using their work. These illegal sites make massive amounts of money from ads and nothing goes back to the artists who provide the content. Not one cent. Sites such as the Pirate Bay and Kickass Torrents exploit artists in the worst sense of the word. These illegal sites do not support musicians' careers. They deprive musicians of the right to have their work valued in a free and open market. The success of these sites is predicated on taking without paying on a massive scale. In fact, that is their business model. They don't create anything. I feel infuriated when I see my work and my friends' work being used in this way by people who don't give a drat. We need effective copyright laws which give artists and those who invest in them, such as publishers and labels, the practical tools to have their work protected online. Then my advice to young musicians would have some meaning. This is not a theoretical exercise for some academic paper; this is about working musicians making a living from their talent and hard work. The choice about how a work should be used lies with the creator of the work. Artists' choices should be respected and so it follows that it is up to the artist to decide how they make their music available to fans. It is time that the discussion focus on how our copyright laws can be improved to support the artist's right to choose how their work will be enjoyed by fans. I wish more people would become advocates for musicians' rights because I want to see their rights protected in practical and meaningful ways so every young musician can build and maintain a career for the long haul. Lindy Morrison is former drummer with the Go-Betweens, a copyright advocate and social worker with Support Act, the music industry charity.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 02:29 |
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# ? Apr 28, 2024 22:07 |
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what
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 02:31 |
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Michael Bay ruined transformers and Ninja turtles and now he's going to ruin Pirates?! this shall not stand!
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 02:32 |
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thanks op
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 02:32 |
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Fight, conquer, or die.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 02:33 |
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pirates do steal a lot of money from musicians but nothing compared to what the record companies steal
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 02:33 |
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same
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 02:34 |
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pirates suck, when was the last time they even won the world series
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 02:36 |
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same, op
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 02:37 |
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Race Realists posted:Lindy Morrison is former drummer with the Go-Betweens As I never loving heard of the Go-Betweens I will now assume this is an emergency ego-repair to blame the lack of album sales on pirates rather than just sucking rear end.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 02:40 |
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I would think it was really cool if my music had like 500 seeds on pirate bays and I would be sure to seed whenever I went to bed. gently caress leechers though why do they steal bandwith that's hosed
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 03:18 |
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stealing is cool that's why gangster and heist movies are popular
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 03:25 |
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Musicians (and videographers whatever) host brainwashing awarad shows that convince them they deservce the millions. Otherwise they wouldn't have thise complex, guaranteed. They need to be brought down several pegs.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 03:28 |
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brb downloadin some albums lol
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 03:29 |
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Race Realists posted:On Monday night at the APRA Music Awards in Brisbane, I was awarded the Ted Albert Award for my contribution to the music industry. I am deeply honoured that my work has been recognised, including my work as an advocate for musicians’ rights. same hosed up if true im gay
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 03:32 |
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Blazing Ownager posted:As I never loving heard of the Go-Betweens I will now assume this is an emergency ego-repair to blame the lack of album sales on pirates rather than just sucking rear end. I just looked and combining all The Go-Betweens torrents on The Pirates Bay they have a total of 21 seeders and 6 leechers. They're not losing as much money to pirates as they think.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 04:06 |
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I hope copyright advocates are right and piracy destroys the music and/or movie industries because lol gently caress them
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 04:08 |
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If you dont upload your own punk ep, then you're not really punk.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 04:12 |
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DOWNLOAD M P 3 DESTROY THE MUSIC INDUSTRY TURN OFF YOUR T V NOW YOUR MIND IS FREE
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 04:30 |
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Bobby Brown posted:same same
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 04:31 |
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jesus christ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuuqJGLgjXw
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 04:35 |
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does this have anything with my penis being tiny? because my penis is totally not tiny, promise.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 04:36 |
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Or you could be cool and release your music for free like good bands do.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 04:40 |
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who would want to steal this poo poo?
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 04:46 |
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"Music industry charity" I laughed pretty hard at that bit.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 04:52 |
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man, gently caress, their records were out of print until recently so it's not like they were making money from second-hand sales either. wth
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 05:32 |
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i'm not reading that op
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 05:38 |
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if i stop stealing music how am i expected to listen to music
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 05:42 |
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if you download stuff illegally you are supporting communism
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 05:43 |
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If the entertainment industry asked for eternal copyright and the death penalty for copyright infringement, they would get it.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 05:43 |
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Stalins Moustache posted:if you download stuff illegally you are supporting communism good
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 05:46 |
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4outof5 posted:who would want to steal this poo poo? well I mean who would want to pay for it?
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 05:57 |
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Online piracy is cool and good.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 06:00 |
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The Go-Betweens are actually quite nice and good
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 07:38 |
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I just use Spotify.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 07:49 |
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Oh it's an old person complaining, suddnly it all makes sense.
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 07:59 |
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I love the Go-Betweens. I bought their Best of about 15 years ago and it holds up. First heard them on RAGE a long time ago... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pq1s6FCEoZM Hey Lindy, I've always wanted to know... why Grant is singing in the video but the recording is Robert? Poorleg fucked around with this message at 08:16 on Jun 27, 2014 |
# ? Jun 27, 2014 08:13 |
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lol if you aren't musically self-sufficiant
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 08:22 |
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Stalins Moustache posted:if you download stuff illegally you are supporting communism no gently caress you if they wanted no piracy they should make the music unpiratable i'm just doing what is objectively in my best interest why should i pay if i can get it for free if i like the music i will tip jay z a satoshi
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# ? Jun 27, 2014 08:25 |
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wid posted:no gently caress you if they wanted no piracy they should make the music unpiratable i'm just doing what is objectively in my best interest why should i pay if i can get it for free if i like the music i will tip jay z a satoshi Becuase jayze will go broke and starve if you do that and encourage other people and then eventually there will be no music in the world at all
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