MUSIC An industry that serves everyone bar the maker*

Can there be such a thing as the music industry? We are forever being told, both by governments and commercial players, that the “industry” must be “protected”, “supported”, “funded” or whatever.
Yet when it comes to actually paying the producers of the product, the musicians, a strange ambivalence emerges. The musicians, it seems, are not necessarily worth paying because, well, they “do it for the love” or, if they are good enough…

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