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National Chamber Music Month – Join The Celebration. Sign Up Today.
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This May marks the sixth annual National Chamber Music Month. This nationwide campaign powered by Chamber Music America celebrates all styles of small ensemble music including jazz, classical, contemporary, and world music. With your help, this year’s celebration will be the most successful yet. Each year, performers and presenters from all fifty states designate concerts, talks, and residencies in May as NCMM events. This results in increased promotional opportunities, media attention, and broader and more diverse audiences. Signing up is ...
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Bill Introduced That Will Politicize U.S. Copyright Office
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Rep. Bob Goodlatte and U.S. congressional leaders have promised copyright reform; and if a new bill just introduced is any indication, that will mean putting more control in the hands of the RIAA and MPAA, says Mike Masnick. By Mike Masnick of Techdirt Well, we all knew this was coming, but Rep. Bob Goodlatte has been passing around a draft of a bill to move the Copyright Office out of the Library of Congress. Specifically, it would make the head of ...
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Trump Budget To End All Funding For Nat'l Endowment For The Arts, Corporation For Public Broadcasting
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The administration of U.S. President Donald J. Trump released its first federal budget plan this week which calls for the elimination of all funding for the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Trump also proposed pulling the plug on the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, a key source of funding for PBS and Public Radio. While these organizations have been a point of controversy for conservatives, such as the NEA's funding of photographic exhibits by ...
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LET THEM EAT DIAMONDS: Nat'l Endowment For Arts $148M/Year vs Security At Trump Towers: $183M/Year
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Trump's proposed budget eliminates funding for the National Endowments for the Arts and Humanities, which at $148 million makes up 0.003% of the Federal Budget. But as a tweet with the tagline “Let Them Eat Diamonds" pointed out, that's far less than the $183 million that will be spent guarding Trump Towers each year of a Trump presidency. Cost of security for Trump Tower: $183 million/year Budget for National Endowment Arts/Humanities: $148 million/year Let them eat diamonds. pic.twitter.com/Jux4NCW0UD — Elliott Lusztig (@ezlusztig) ...
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Join 3700+ Songwriters: SIGN THIS PETITION NOW To Stop Big Tech From Lowering Royalty Rates
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The National Music Publishers' Association (NMPA), which represents U.S. music publishers and their songwriters, along with the Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) are facing off against Google, Apple, Amazon, Spotify and Pandora as the Copyright Royalty Board meets this week to determine how songwriters are paid for the next five years. “Songwriters must stand up to Big Tech and demand that they stop fighting to pay even lower royalties to the music creators who fuel their businesses" says the NMPA. ...
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It's Time For Congress To Get Serious About Artists' Performance Rights - #IRespectMusic
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While the National Association of Broadcasters once again works to pass the Local Radio Freedom Act, something which would be harmful to recording artists everywhere, it becomes increasingly important for Congress to take real action regarding artist' performance rights. Guest post by Chris Castle of Music Tech Solutions Friends don’t let friends get LRFA’d. Once again we’ve started a new session of Congress with really old news–he National Association of Broadcasters is yet again circulating the reactionary Local Radio Freedom Act ...
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Indie Music Fans Spent More Than $1 Million On Bandcamp During Friday's ACLU Fundraiser
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On Friday, Bandcamp held a fundraiser donating a share of sales to support the pro-immigrant and pro-refugee work of the American Civil Liberties. 400 independent labels and artists joined in, and indie music fans responded, spending more than $1 million on music on the platform. Bandcamp, along with 400 indie labels and artists donated a share of Friday's sales to the American Civil Liberties Union as a protest against the Trump administration's recent anti-immigration actions. Bandcamp will donate all of ...
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Musicians Action Group's Comments To Judiciary Committee Regarding Copyright Reform
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This piece contains the text of comments by the participatory grass roots organization Musicians Action to the House Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property and the Internet regarding copyright reform as they work to promote economic justice for artists. Guest Post by David Lowery on The Trichordist Musicians Action is a participatory democratic grass roots organization dedicated to public direct action to support economic justice for working artists in the digital domain. Here is the text of our comments on copyright ...
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