As of late there has been a growing resentment between musicians and the German collecting society, GEMA. With no other collecting society for music available, GEMA has exerted their monopoly hold on the market by implementing questionable tariffs on nightclubs, DJs and producers within the country. With no alternatives left for rights holders, they have restricted producers from releasing and licensing music creatively, which has in turn has effected how consumers can access music. But, there is an alternative; C3S, a non-exclusive collecting society that want to challenge the current system, and allow people to release their music under a Creative Commons non-commercial license. To find out more, we spoke to Daniel Bruder, one of the founders for C3S.
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