Advocating For the Fair Trade of Music

Music is an international language. It crosses boundaries and borders of all kinds. That principle should also be applied to how we respect and pay music creators for their work.

OUR MISSION

what’s at stake

Unfair treatment of music creators based solely on their nationality costs them hundreds of millions of dollars in lost royalties every year. For American creators, that amounts to more than $300 million in global losses a year. Given the devastating impact the pandemic has had on the music community it’s more important than ever for artists and other music creators around the globe need to be paid for their work.

$330M

in lost royalties

National Treatment of Music Creators

For 75 years a key principle in global trade has been that a nation should provide foreign entities the same benefits and protections as it would its own citizens. In music, that means whatever rights regime a country gives to creators, the principle of what is known as National Treatment should apply those rights to all, regardless of nationality.

For too long several countries in Europe have ignored this principle and discriminated against foreign music creators based solely on their country of origin.

the latest

Advocating For the Fair Trade of Music

what’s at stake

$330M

in lost royalties