The careers of unsigned artists are being caught in the crossfire of an increasingly aggressive copyright assault on Facebook by music publishers. Performers began to publicly complain about covers of popular tracks being pulled down from Facebook in October, following a spate of copyright infringement notifications from music rights-holders. Things have gone from bad to worse for them since then. The most vigorous publisher in terms of takedown demands, MBW is told, is Universal Music Publishing Group. The company’s anti-piracy boss David Benjamin has sent a legion of individual copyright notices to Facebook this year – for which he was recently called a ‘hero’ by songwriter and musicians’ rights activist David Lowery. But not everyone is quite as impressed – particularly those emerging artists for whom the fallout is causing major headaches. Samantha Harvey is a British singer/songwriter who has attracted 1.97 million ‘Likes’ on her official Facebook page. By any measure, that’s a pretty extraordinary following for an artist without a label. According to her management company at 84 World, Harvey is the most ‘Liked’ unsigned artist in the UK – a claim that seems to hold up to scrutiny. Consider that Stormzy, one of the most celebrated […]
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