mica – music austria has started the forerunner project on local level and will develop the existing networks.
In today’s globalized and digitalised world, music could find a global audience and could produce revenues for its creators independent from set distribution channels and the commercial music business. The “Fair Music Campaign” wants to bridge the gap and offer a trusted label for both – artists and audiences – to match their needs: musical diversity, recognition and remuneration.
New technological developments have resulted in far reaching structural changes in the music sector, leading to opening up of new distribution channels and possibilities. This change also impacts on cultural outputs or products. The effects of technological improvements bring challenges: dealing with piracy, directing the payment-flow towards the creators and deliberations on who decides about the access for producers and consumers to music and culture.
People will pay for music they love knowing that its creators will get a fair share for their work.
The Fair Music Campaign will raise awareness and will position “Fair Music” as the global brand for musical diversity.
The project is aimed to create a new awareness for rewarding creativity and give Non-Western countries a chance to break through on the music market… This ensures diversification of musical repertoire and strengthens regional content production, which is important for new EU member states.
“Fair Music” is dealing with the difficulties and problems of European music creators.
The main activities during the project period are :
- Develop a set of legal standards for cultural productions
- Develop the certification, infrastructure and business model = Set-up of a certification agency
- To install a sustainable innovative distribution scheme and remuneration model
- To install a catalogue of certified fair music repertoire that takes into account the socio-economic content of cultural production.
- Establish an active network of partners (organisations and individuals) from all over the world.
The winners of the 2008 fair music award have been presented in the course of a Haydn Jahr 2009 – event on September 3rd in Schloss Esterhàzy in Eisenstadt. The award winner is the label col legno, further laureates are the ensemble Klangforum Wien, the musician’s initiative JazzWerkstatt Wien and the British label Honest Jon’s Records.
Im feierlichen Rahmen einer Veranstaltung des Haydn-Jahr 2009 in Schloss Esterházy in Eisenstadt wurden gestern die fair music-Auszeichnungen verliehen.
Die fair music Initiative des mica-music austria kämpft für mehr Fairness und Gerechtigkeit in der Musikwirtschaft. Ausgehend von der UNESCO-Konvention zum Schutz und zur Förderung kultureller Ausdrucksformen, und den vom Internationalen Musikrat formulierten Musikalischen Grundrechten, wurden die Kriterien für die Vergabe der Auszeichnung entwickelt: Künstlerische Freiheit, faire Bedingungen für die Kreativen, kulturelle Vielfalt, Service für den Kunden und Marktzugang für MusikerInnen aus Ländern des Südens. (more…)
Basical musical rights:
• The right for all children and adults to express themselves musically in all freedom;
• The right for all children and adults to learn musical languages and skills;
• The right for all children and adults to have access to musical involvement through participation, listening, creation, and information;
• The right for musical artists to develop their artistry and communicate through all media, with proper facilities at their disposal;
• The right for musical artists to obtain just recognition and remuneration for their services.(excerpt from the statutes of the IMC—International Music Council, an advisory body of UNESCO)
We have never before had it this good! As music fans, we all remember the days when the longing for new records had us rummaging through dusty boxes and enthusiastically schleppingheavy loads of plastic back with us from far-flung cities so that we could finally hear the musicthat had been touted by our magazines of choice. Cellphones, notebooks, Web platforms –today, every new electronic communication channel is chock full of music. On the streets you hardly see an ear anymore that is not literally wired for sound. But do we really know where themusic we are enjoying in such abundance comes from? Besides the artists that are so close to our hearts, there are also numerous other people and companies involved in making sure we can finally hear what we want to hear. But we don’t even know about them!
As a music fan, I have a right to hear exactly the music I want to hear. As a creative artist, I have a right to expect recognition and payment for my performances and my ideas. As a listener, I assume that the money I pay for my music goes to the artists of my choice. But can I really be sure that the artists receive their fair share of what I spend and that – as a fundamental principle –they can produce their music freely and under fair conditions? (more…)
The Maison des Cultures du Monde, founded in 1982, is hosting foreign performances, irrespective of their place of origin or their form of expression: sacred or secular, erudite or widespread, professional or amateur, literary or oral, traditional or contemporary.
Furthermore it is developing tools of distribution, documentation and preservation, specifically through the INEDIT label of traditional music.
