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Italian Phonograph Alarm: 'Facebook uses content and does not pay royalties'

2022-05-16T12:32:22.602Z


President Cerruti: 'We ask the institutions to protect us' (ANSA) "Not only the protection of personal data, today the music industry is also paying the price for Facebook's dominant position" this is the alarm from Sergio Cerruti, president of AFI, the Association of Italian Phonographers that looks after the economic interests of 760 producers and represents almost 10% of the independent Italian music scene. "For too long we have been asking politics to protec


"Not only the protection of personal data, today the music industry is also paying the price for Facebook's dominant position" this is the alarm from Sergio Cerruti, president of AFI, the Association of Italian Phonographers that looks after the economic interests of 760 producers and represents almost 10% of the independent Italian music scene.

"For too long we have been asking politics to protect precisely those platforms, such as Facebook, which enjoy careful consideration by our institutions, although they are aware of the economic damage they cause to part of the Italian music industry" says Sergio Cerruti, president of AFI. 

"We face a full-blown case of legal piracy on a daily basis: for years Facebook, the social network giant, has successfully used our music content without having all the necessary authorizations from the companies of independent record producers, who continue to fight with the long and expensive online complaints procedures, which are rarely successful and therefore have no economic effect "comments Cerruti. A dangerous habit, they explain from AFI, which creates serious competitive imbalances in a market already severely hit by the pandemic.

"We are faced with the voluntary creation of a non-competitive system that makes our market dysfunctional and that favors the big companies in the sector that sign agreements with Meta at an international level, evading any responsibility of an economic and regulatory nature at the local level, to the detriment of the good Italian manners demonstrated once again by this last meeting ”continues Cerruti.

In the year in which Facebook changes its name, therefore, it cannot be said that it changes attitude.

“We have repeatedly tried to bring the economic damage it is causing to the small and medium-sized enterprises of Italian record companies to the attention of Facebook, asking for and proposing solution tools.

Nothing has changed, 

 “The digital giants have always been in reserve of behavioral ethics, not only towards companies but also and above all to people (their users).

What we expect is that our institutions, including the authorities responsible for supervising the sector, dissolve this reserve by directing attention to the recovery of lost values ​​because there is no future without an improvement in the present ".

Source: ansa

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