[atlantaprog] FW: [gafia-announce] FMC Survey on Music and the Internet: Musicians Please Participate!

Got this forwarded to me today.  Looks like it's worth checking out.


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March 17, 2004

Dear FMC newsletter subscribers:

The Future of Music Coalition has been working in partnership with the
Pew Internet & American Life Project and an array of other
musician-based organizations to design a balanced survey that will give
musicians, performers, and songwriters a chance to speak up about the
Internet, file-sharing, and copyright issues. The survey is now up and
functioning, administered by Pew Internet and Princeton Survey Research
Associates, so please visit
http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/11719/Music.htm from March 15 - April 15,
2004 to participate. It will take about 20 minutes of your time to
complete.

Why survey musicians?
We've all heard speculations about what musicians are "really
thinking"in the changing digital landscape. Yet, from our vantage point
inside the music community these projections have always seemed too
narrow to represent the complex concerns we regularly experience in our
discussions with musicians.

It's time to stop projecting our thoughts and preferences onto musicians
and, instead, ask musicians to share their own experiences and opinions.

To that end, CD Baby, Just Plain Folks, Nashville Songwriters
Association, AFTRA, AFM, Garageband.com, the Future of Music Coalition
and the Pew Internet & American Life Project have designed an online
survey that asks musicians a variety of questions about music,
technology, copyright, peer-to-peer filesharing, emerging best
practices, and the public domain.

Help us spread the word!

We urge musicians, songwriters and performers of all types to take this
online survey so we can better understand the complexity of these
changes and the diversity of experiences in our community. Please visit
http://websurveyor.net/wsb.dll/11719/Music.htm during March 15 - April
15, 2004 to participate, and tell your musician friends, colleagues,
band members, and label mates to do the same!

When the survey is complete the results will be published and
distributed to those who have a critical stake in the current debate. We
hope they will open another channel in the discussions about how music
will be enjoyed, and how musicians will be compensated, in the future.

For more information, please visit:
http://www.futureofmusic.org/research/musiciansurvey.cfm

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