{"id":2443,"date":"2012-12-14T20:42:58","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2012\/12\/14\/60-of-uk-musicians-worked-for-free-in-past-year\/"},"modified":"2012-12-14T20:42:58","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T20:42:58","slug":"60-of-uk-musicians-worked-for-free-in-past-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2012\/12\/14\/60-of-uk-musicians-worked-for-free-in-past-year\/","title":{"rendered":"60% OF U.K. MUSICIANS WORKED FOR FREE IN PAST YEAR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/commons\/b\/b9\/UK_Flag_and_Outline_Map.JPG\" border=\"0\" width=\"155\" height=\"115\" \/><br \/>New research commissioned by the Musicians\u2019 Union suggests that 60% of musicians have worked for free over the past year, and more than half of professional musicians get paid less than \u00a320,000 per year.  <!--more-->  <\/p>\n<p>The MU calls the statistics \u201cominous for the future of music in the UK\u201d against the backdrop of the autumn statement with its omission of music for the Government\u2019s \u00a36m creative industry boost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo many of the MU\u2019s members are SMEs battling against a tide of arts cuts and reduced income due to piracy,\u201d said MU general secretary John Smith.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSmall but significant investment by Government could make all the difference in the struggle to survive.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat\u2019s also interesting is that of the musicians surveyed who receive royalty payments; over half said that they represented an important additional source of income for them. This finally puts paid to the argument that ordinary musicians do not benefit from copyright.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Music Week<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research commissioned by the Musicians\u2019 Union suggests that 60% of musicians have worked for&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}