Online Music & P2P Networks: artists-to-fans-to-artists

Posted on October 26, 2009
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A new blog is officially online for discussing music on the Web, with debates on payments to artists and issues related to copyright.

It’s called a2f2a (artists to fans to artists), and here’s the mission statement as stated on the blog page:

to help each community better understand the other;

to help find a practical and workable system which offers artists fair remuneration in exchange for access to material by fans; and

to help set the agenda for discussions about the role P2P can play within the emergent digital record industry.

As co-founder Billy Bragg suggests, the direct artist-to-fan model has never been closer – with all the economic benefits of the digital music industry.

And other co-founder Jon Newton clearly restates two important assumptions for the p2p community as conceived by them:

there’s no technological solution to the problems that artists face today as a result of the digitisation of music;

P2P users will to pay for music if they can be sure that the money is going to the artists.

For further info and links, check out the official web site here.