{"id":2511,"date":"2013-01-09T13:48:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:48:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylight.gr\/administrator_wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/01\/09\/low-levels-of-pay-for-uk-musicians-revealed\/"},"modified":"2013-01-09T13:48:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T13:48:03","slug":"low-levels-of-pay-for-uk-musicians-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/2013\/01\/09\/low-levels-of-pay-for-uk-musicians-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Low Levels Of Pay For UK Musicians Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/upload.wikimedia.org\/wikipedia\/en\/thumb\/a\/ae\/Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg\/800px-Flag_of_the_United_Kingdom.svg.png\" border=\"0\" width=\"154\" height=\"77\" \/><br \/>New research commissioned by the Musicians&#8217; Union (MU) has been published today demonstrating the chronic levels of low pay and no pay for self-employed professional musicians.  <!--more-->  The Working Musician report reveals that after years of training, more than half of professional musicians still get paid less than \u00a320,000 per year and 60% have worked for free over the past year.<\/p>\n<p>Against the backdrop of the autumn statement and the omission of music from the Government&#8217;s \u00a36m boost to creative industries, these statistics are ominous for the future of music in the UK.<\/p>\n<p>John Smith, MU General Secretary, says:<br \/>&#8220;So many of the MU&#8217;s members are SMEs battling against a tide of arts cuts and reduced income due to piracy. Small but significant investment by Government could make all the difference in the struggle to survive.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What&#8217;s 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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Source: Musicians&#8217; Union<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research commissioned by the Musicians&#8217; Union (MU) has been published today demonstrating the chronic&#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-2511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511","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=2511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}