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Conversation with @KCEsq and @MusicTechPolicy on a Songwriter Union, Better Royalties and Health Care for Songwriters

Forming a songwriter union is a hot topic these days, thank you Chappell Roan! Artist Rights Institute put a casual poll in the field to get a sense of what people are thinking about this issue. If you haven’t taken that poll yet, please join us on Survey Monkey here (all results are anonymized) we would love to get your feedback. We will post the results on Trichordist.

Reaction to the poll led to an Artist Rights Institute podcast with Chris Castle and Kevin Casini who both fans of the Trichordist audience, so naturally they wanted to launch the podcast here. There are a number of resources mentioned in the podcast that we have linked to below. Please leave comments if you have questions!

Check out the video with Kevin and Chris, and while you’re on the Artist Rights Institute’s cool new YouTube channel subscribe and bookmark the Artist Rights Symposium videos!

Important resources:

Union Organizing and Union Health Care Insurance Plans

National Labor Relations Board

AFL-CIO Organizing Institute

American Federation of Musicians

SAG-AFTRA

Health Care:

Health Alliance for Austin Musician http://www.myhaam.org Musician Services (512) 541-4226 (opt 2).

HAAM+Annual+Report-2024_ErrataDownload

Music Health Alliance https://www.musichealthalliance.com Request assistance

American Association of Independent Music Benefits Store

Mental Health

SIMS Foundation (Austin) 512-494-1007

Industry-wide Agreements

See discussion of Canada’s Mechanical License Agreement https://musictechpolicy.com/2012/01/1…

Controlled Compositions

Copyright Office Circular on Work For Hire Explainer

Controlled Compositions Part 1 https://musictechpolicy.com/2010/03/2… and Controlled Compositions and Frozen Mechanicals https://musictechpolicy.com/2020/10/1…

We will be coming back to this topic soon. Feel free to leave comments if you have questions or want us to focus on any particular point.

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New Songwriter Union Survey and @ArtistRights Institute Newsletter 3/10/25

The Artist Rights Institute’s news digest Newsletter

New Survey for Songwriters: We are surveying songwriters about whether they want to form a certified union. Please fill out our short Survey Monkey confidential survey here! Thanks!

Big Tech’s “Text and Data Mining” Lobbying Head Fake

George York of Digital Creators Coalition and RIAA gives an excellent overview of international AI Text and Data Mining (TDM) loopholes and how to plug them. Nov. 20, 2024 Artist Rights Symposium, Washington, DC. Watch the Symposium playlist here.

Music

“I felt like a puppet”: the Motown hit Marvin Gaye felt like he didn’t deserve (Ben Forrest/Far Out) (h/t @ElizaNealsRocks

TikTok

Negotiations over a TikTok US deal have reportedly yet to begin (Stuart Dredge/Music Ally)

Artificial Intelligence: Text and Data Mining Exceptions

Digital Creators Coalition Letter to USTR on US Trade Policy for Threats from Text and Data Mining Exceptions Misapplied in AI Training (Chris Castle/Artist Rights Watch)

Sony slams ‘unworkable’ AI plans as music theft (William Turvill/The Sunday Times)

AI copyright shake-up could breach international law (Mark Sellman/The Times). (Tracks comments on Berne et al made by Digital Creators Coalition to USTR)

REPORT ON PIRATED CONTENT USED IN THE TRAINING OF GENERATIVE AI (Rights Alliance for Creative Industry on the Internet)

Ticketing

TWO PEOPLE ARRESTED ON CYBERCRIME CHARGES AFTER STEALING STUBHUB TICKETS TO ERAS TOUR(Daniel Kreps/Rolling Stone)

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