According to Billboard, Complete Music Update, and the awesome MusicAlly, nobody appears to be buying what they’re selling over to the BMI. For what seems like the second time in less than 30 days, Artist Rights Alliance, Black Music Action Coalition, Music Artists Coalition, SAG-AFTRA and Songwriters of North America rejected the hummina, hummina, hummina happy talk from BMI’s comms shop which comes out to trickle down mixed with a rising tide.
It’s really a shame because it would have been so easy to provide concrete answers if for no other reason than SAG-AFTRA is on a war footing already and is likely not going to back down. And with SAG-AFTRA comes the AFL-CIO which for BMI’s benefit are unions, see, unions that have been down this path before and are…oh, yes…on strike right now. How close are we to signs like this showing up outside of BMI HQ in New York? It’s OK, Larry and Sergey didn’t think they’d get one, either. Thank goodness we have the smart people to guide us. But BMI should look closely at this picture of a Google labor action and think about what they’d do if it happened to them.
When the CEO is trying to sell the company, in a very real sense they are auditioning for continued employment. Do you think this helps or hurts? Friends don’t let friends become a closing condition.
[This post first appeared on MusicTechPolicy]
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