Unfinished Business: The Council of Music Makers calls on new government to act on priorities for creators

The FAC, alongside our colleagues at the Council of Music Makers has written to the new government, urging it to act on key areas of reform for the music industry.

Over recent years, the Council of Music Makers’ member bodies have cooperated on a number of topics impacting artists and the wider music maker community.

Today, we reiterate our calls for an environment that better protects and supports those that make the music which the UK’s industry is built on the back of. In particular, we are calling on the new Labour government to continue to the momentum on music streaming reform and the grassroots touring crisis. Furthermore, we urge new ministers to act on the issue of artificial intelligence in music, ensuring steps are taking to protect the identity and work of music makers. It is not enough for right holders such as record labels, publishers and distributors to assume they have the consent of music makers for AI-related uses.

Additionally, we are reaffirming calls for the government to consider and implement the recommendations of the misogyny in music inquiry, and to strongly back the creation of the Creative Industries Independent Standards Authority, as an agency to combat bullying, discrimination and harassment, particularly for the large proportion of our sector that is freelance and works outside of company structures.

You can read our calls in full below.