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CMU supports music here
By CMU Editorial | Published on Monday 19 April 2010
For the next three weeks the CMU Daily will be celebrating the previously reported Music Supported Here campaign, and profiling some of the artists who have backed the initiative.
As previously reported, Music Supported Here is a grass-roots campaign backed by the Musicians’ Union which encourages musicians and songwriters to engage directly with their fans on copyright and piracy issues, and to explain how the grass-roots music community relies on fans to buy their music in order to be able to dedicate their lives to music making. The theory is that such a message is better delivered by each artist to their specific fan base, rather than via glossy industry-wide initiatives which tend to confuse or alienate music consumes.
MSH is also working with the Musicians’ Union and other trade bodies to help artists better engage directly with their fans over the internet, for example by promoting the idea that labels should enable artists to become retailers, selling their music directly to fans via their websites, and getting a retailer cut in the process.
At the heart of the MSH project is a gallery of ‘music’ logos that incorporate the copyright ‘C’ which have been drawn by each participating artist. We will be featuring a different music logo at the top of each edition of the CMU Daily for the next three weeks. Click on the logo and you can find out which musician created it, learn a bit more about that artist, and hear why they are backing the Music Supported Here project.
For more info on all things MSH, check www.musicsupportedhere.com
