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BEGGARS BOSS MAKES ROUSING SPEECH IN CANNES EDITORIAL Midem: over- Mills left ‘incensed’ priced, so why by global government not over here? treatment of artists HAVE you heard the industry’s favourite insult recently? No? Maybe that’s because you’re so ‘irrelevant’, man. MIDEM that income. Tainted with the residue of a business still teeth-gratingly “And to what economic end paranoid about being left in the dark ages, everyone’s slating their eggars Group co-founder for society are such tech favourite moving target with it - be that competitor, genre, format, B Martin Mills spoke companies favoured? My small artist, service, or - most presciently - event. passionately at Midem company, admittedly a very So it’s with a little trepidation that I take the bold move of telling 2013 over his anger surrounding successful one last year, apparently you just how, erm, relevant Midem 2013 seemed to me. the treatment of artists and paid more tax – at the proper rate Oh, it’s quiet. Ask any taxi driver in Cannes if Midem will be back rightsholders by both – in the UK last year than next year and you’ll get a tourist-unfriendly barrage of plus-size government and tech giants. Google, Facebook, Apple, and sacrebleu: they’ve seen attendance halve in a decade, it’s no Speaking as he collected his Amazon put together. How can longer worth their time, you English are unsophisticated swines. Billboard Icon award in Cannes, politicians discriminate in favour (Okay, okay - they don’t actually say the last one out loud.) Mills began his Sunday of companies who most citizens morning briefing by discussing would perceive as cheating the Beggars’ independent roots, and mistakes in their licensing taxman? In what way does that “Take away the Cartier and the Prada logos and praising the internet for “leveling practices. They still do.... But I make any sense at all for society? Cannes becomes every grain the dreary, chintzy the playing field” across the don’t believe that the present day “There are certainly industries Clacton clone. And the price? I’m not sure that’s music trade. industry is a reluctant licensor. which developing technology has doing the industry’s cause much good at all.” Those expecting that angle to “It does need help. Cross turned into dinosaurs – coal segue into major-bashing would border licensing is clearly a mining, horse drawn carriages, Yet for an industry with a clear and present need for a sense of have left disappointment, as problem, and the territorial for example. But the demand for modern day community, Midem works. Its aim to allow rights- Mills clearly stated that he was, structures that continue to the power that coal generated is holders and technological boundary-pushers to mix and - shock in fact, on the side of “the majors dominate a global licensing higher than ever, the demand for horror - agree face-to-face is both impressive and infectious. And in all the creative arts”. marketplace are clearly an transport is higher than ever. All the heart-warming image of entrepreneurial dance record and He did, however, raise his anachronism. We need help in that has changed is the delivery. publishing pushermen scurrying for sub-licensing friends from concerns over consolidation, not moving beyond that. “As with music, we are not around the globe still brings plenty of nostalgic cheer. least “Sony Music’s recent deal “But we do not need to have wedded to any single carrier, and There are, however, far less welcome sights. Take away the with Pandora, which illustrates control of our rights taken away over the last century have had Cartier and the Prada shopfronts, and Cannes quickly becomes succinctly why we’ve been from us, to be forced to license many – from 1888, when Emile every grain the grubby, chintzy Clacton clone. ringing alarm bells for so long”. that in which we have invested at Berliner first created mass audio Stroll up and down its soulless Croisette, and you’re confronted But the majority of Mills’ ire uneconomic prices, to simply duplication, and first used the by a parade of desiccated, sun-scorched old faces, twisted into was directed at “the lack of support allow huge tech firms to make His Master’s Voice Nipper logo, permanent peevish scowls by their super-rich owners. (Unless those that governments, politicians and even huger profits. We do not till now. But the demand for expressions are just reserved for me - entirely possible.) bureaucrats worldwide show to the need illegal services to be made recorded music is greater than But the most upsetting aspect of all is simply the price. The creative industries”. more visible than legal ones. Tech ever, and I know of no way that British music industry and its global counterparts are currently in an He said: “Many pay lip companies should be the partners the investment of time and understandable perma-pose of cap-in-hand. We want breaks service to the value and of rights companies, not their money that is needed for new from government, from YouTube, from consumers. importance of the creative masters. And we value them music to be made can happen, We’re bleeding, oh harbingers of our former riches - please, won’t economy, but most fail to match enormously as such, our other than in the monetisation of you think of the creators. that with their actions. partnerships with them are how people listen to recorded Which all doesn’t quite compute with the sickening amount of “Creative industries are built fundamental to our business now music. So if government erodes money being spent on hotel rooms and bog-standard booze upon strong and defendable – as is our content to theirs. or removes our ability to do that, throughout Cannes in January. In our last issue, Universal intellectual property rights, and “As someone who invests in it will ultimately rob listeners of International boss Max Hole told us the music industry of a decade without that they will inevitably music – and when I looked at the their new music. ago risked coming across as “second-hand car dealer spivs on wither and fail. It is impossible to numbers a few years ago we had “That’s why I decided to champagne”. He should try the Carton at 3am. make the investments to produce written off £25m in unrecouped accept this honour and screw my It is without cheek that I reflect on one £60, three-drink round in new creative goods without the advances to artists over the years nerves up to speak today. Because this oh-so-damaged industry’s favourite Cannes watering hole - and security that ownership of them – it makes me fume when I’m incensed about the humbly compare it to what the average songwriter receives in their is protected. Yet governments are politicians cosy up to the big discrimination and the lack of perennial royalty cheques from Midem partner YouTube. seduced daily by elements of the techs at our cost and spout understanding with which those A man who is the walking antithesis of a second-hand car dealer new technology industry into philosophically about the needs like us who spend their lives spiv, Martin Mills, warned with both skill and passion at Midem that diluting and compromising that of the modern world, about us creating art that brings people music rights-holders could soon be left to “wither and fail”. security... These creative works being dinosaurs, and about joy, can get treated by those in I’m not sure the fact he did so in a venue that charges £20 for a are a priceless national cultural music’s irresistible urge to be power. I very much hope that we gin and tonic does any of our causes much good. and economic asset, which liberated and free... When can all be a part of changing that, Midem, then, can stay. But Cannes? Nah. That dive’s becoming should be treasured, not dumped. businesses make money out of because unless we do, the ladder seriously irrelevant. “Rights owners, especially the music, music rights owners must we climbed will not be there for Tim Ingham, Editor biggest ones, have certainly made have the right to a fair share of those who follow us.” Do you have views on this column? Feel free to comment by emailing [email protected] 02-03 NEWS_v8_News and Playlists 29/01/13 19:35 Page 3
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