The Value Gap

More music is being consumed than ever before, but the value created by that record consumption is not finding its way to music creators. Below you’ll find information on this “Value Gap,” what can be done to restore balance for music creators, and steps being taken around the world.
Redefining Success in a Digital Marketplace: A conversation with Miranda Mulholland | Source: Canadian Musician | Author: Michael Raine | Published: August 21, 2017
Support for creators: pirate streaming and the value gap, my op-ed in the Globe | Author: Barry Sookman | Published: January 19, 2018
How Music Fans Can Help Working Musicians | Source: No Depression | Author: Donald Cohen | Published: December 4, 2017
Five Stubborn Truths About YouTube and The Value Gap | Source: RIAA | Author: Cary Sherman | Published: August 18, 2017
YouTube: Friend or Foe of the Music Industry? | Source: Canadian Musician | Author: Michael Raine | Published: May 9, 2017
The value gap – the missing beat at the heart of our industry | Source: IFPI | Author: Frances Moore | Published: May 5, 2016
‘Value Gap’ growing, according to new UK figures | Source: Recording Industry Association of America | Published: May 5, 2016
Fix the value gap – a reply to Michael Geist | Source: Barry Sookman | Published: January 9, 2017
The Broken Promise of a Golden Age – a speech by Graham Henderson at the Economic Club of Canada | Source: Music Canada | Author: Graham Henderson | Published: November 2, 2016
Must Read: T Bone Burnett’s keynote address at AmericanaFest | Source: The Trichordist | Author: T Bone Burnett | Published: September 25, 2017
YouTube’s Value Gap | Source: Berklee College of Music’s Music Business Journal | Author: Luiz Agusto Buff | Published: September 2016
Make the Internet Fair for Creators | Source: makeinternetfair.eu – a website and petition coordinated by the European grouping of societies of authors and composers (GESAC) | Published: September 2016
Our letter to Heritage Minister Mélanie Joly | Source: The Focus On Creators Coalition | Published: November 29, 2016
Move Fast and Break Things by Jonathan Taplin review – the damage done by Silicon Valley | Source: The Guardian | Author: David Runciman | Published: April 26, 2017
Nelly Furtado: ‘YouTube pays more than nothing. That doesn’t make it fair’ | Source: The Guardian | Author: Nelly Furtado | Published: May 2, 2016