People Make It - The Value of Music & ASCAP

Music has value. Songwriters and composers deserve to get paid for their work. As a longtime member of ASCAP, the organization on the front lines in protecting the rights of music creators, I made this video with the help of my good friend, Jim Hershleder to help get their message across.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Ascap
• ascap
• ASCAP
• value of music
• peter himmelman
• people make it
• furious world

[modplanman]

You should be ashamed you made this video. It entirely relies on setting up a straw man to knock down. Not only that, but you suggest being open source is being some how against "fair payment".

[Jyagos1]

... Wow, there's just so much wrong in this video... It boggles my mind how fair compensation for music and a TV are supposed to be in the same league of issues.

What, are we consumers supposed to pay $1 for every time we hear a song?

[Jyagos1]

@tmack1337

There are a lot of CC artists that are getting popular by allowing free music. Radiohead continues to be popular along with Trent Reznor with free songs (and they still earn money by different methods). DRM isn't about "sharing" music, it's about limiting for false monetary gain. What ASCAP, RIAA, and BMI aren't talking about is the fact that the music industry has been doing quite well, even if their scare tactics don't work. Also, music industry != recording industry.

[Jyagos1]

DRM sucks. Steam does a much better job than what a company like Ubisoft did. And DRM in the music business limits people a LOT. Only 3 downloads to computers and you lose them once you update to Windows 7? Pass on that.  It just makes something from TPB look that much better. Quite frankly, free to DL music is helping the industry far more than this ad campaign.

[Spiritonfilm]

I'm an idiot because I want to be paid for my songs being sold? Well whatever you do for a living- why don't you offer your work for free and see how you like it.

you idiotic hypocrite.

[joewhittles]

well we're living in an age where we can copy music. you can't copy a house, so thats kind of a moot point.

artists these days find most of their work is in live performance, and there are plenty of platforms available to help artists embrace technology for the people that are good enough to support them. if you find you are not profiting off of your music, well frankly i suggest you stick to your day job until the day comes that you can.

[joewhittles]

how can sound vibrations be theft? how can a sequence of frequencies coming from my speakers be the property of someone else? how can an arbitrary collection of 1s and 0s that happen to be on my computer suddenly become the ownership of EMI? you're an idiot.

[joewhittles]

yet again, pathetic. creative commons is saving music. holding data is not a crime, and to be honest i dont want to be in an age where people are deciding what formats i am allowed to own, and what 1s and 0s on my hard drive i can't.

[ZombiePowerDrink]

All my music is free for anyone to hear.I want people to hear it.

[mjkeys1]

Diana....I agree. Great video!

[dianawilliamson]

Way to go.. Not sure if comments below are joking about not liking this- because there are no 2 ways about looking at thievery!

[Jyagos1]

Ah. Sorry if I seem touchy. I have no problem with fair compensation, but a lot of artists have other alternatives besides ASCAP. Ex. ASCAP attacked Creative Commons which has a lot of great artists that I've looked into. Rather than working with artists in a new age, they seem stuck in the 1980s. Also, they're shutting down businesses for not paying $9000+ dollars in fees in court! I just don't think that they're being "fair" by anyone's standard but their own. :)