UMAW is thrilled to share what we’ve been working on for the last few years: The Living Wage for Musicians Act, with co-lead sponsors @RepRashida and @JamaalBowmanNY 💪

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UMAW calls on all sectors of the industry to safeguard and properly compensate human labor.

Sign on in support here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/umaw…

Artists could afford therapy if Spotify just paid us fairly.

The new initiative “Fresh Finds Forward” provides support to artists… but only those who are on Spotify’s editorial Fresh Finds playlists.

We need the Living Wage for Musicians Act NOW! Artists deserve a living wage!

Cowardly behavior from Ed Sheeran, his team, the venues, and the AEG promoter.

Consolidation ruins culture. Nearly all the workers at BrooklynVegan, Alt Press, Revolver, and Goldmine have been laid off thanks to parent company Veeps, owned by (you guessed it!) Live Nation.

Via @404mediaco

AI “music” is simply theft. Artists deserve real protections against the AI companies who are harming real, human musicians! Suno scraped decades worth of music — did those artists consent to that? We doubt it.

Article via 404

Today UMAW officially launches our Raise the Bar campaign, our effort to establish baseline standards for artist treatment. We call on all venues to commit to these four standards:

1. No Merch Cuts
2. No Pay to Play
3. No Door Polling
4. Contract Transparency

Go to weareumaw.org/raise-the-bar and sign on your venue, join our artist petition, or use our template to send an email and ask venues in your community to Raise the Bar.

Tidal announced today that they will be demonetizing fully AI-generated tracks on their platform. Listeners will also be able to filter out all fully AI-generated content.

Deezer has debuted an AI music detector that works across all DSPs, not just theirs. Via @MusicAlly

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We need to hold the major labels and their AI partners accountable!