Viewpoint: There is a need for change in the digital music industry

Tom Pakinkis

The following viewpoint is from Gregor Pryor and Sachin Premnath in the Entertainment And Media Industry Group at Reed Smith LLP.

“Music is art, and art is important and rare. Important, rare things are valuable. Valuable things should be paid for”.

This simple ethos, published by Taylor Swift in a 2014 Wall Street Journal op-Ed, and couched in the language of deductive reasoning, may be the most important intervention by the artist community in the history of digital music. ...

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