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David Cameron not happy with record industry’s response to raunchy video report
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 10 April 2012
David Cameron is disappointed at the music industry’s efforts to regulate access by children to overly-sexualised pop promos, and plans to host a summit on the issue next month, according to the Daily Telegraph.
As previously reported, pop videos were among the things criticised for exposing young people to overly sexualised content in a government report published last summer and authored by Mothers Union boss Reg Bailey. The record industry pre-empted the report by announcing it was extending its ‘parental advisory’ labelling programme, which identifies content that is possibly inappropriate for children on music CDs and DVDs, to the digital domain, with both audio and video services pledging to more clearly identify such tracks and vids.
But, the Telegraph says, Bailey and Cameron reckon the music industry should be doing more to block access for children to more raunchy or violent videos, especially online. And, according to the broadsheet, a particular target is the major label owned VEVO which, apparently, does less than YouTube to block those under eighteen from seeing raunchy music clips.
The paper quotes Bailey as saying: “Many of the industries mentioned in last year’s report have responded positively to our recommendations. I cannot say that has been the case with music videos. Age ratings should be introduced for music videos and there is also a clear case for age-verification for music video websites”.
It’s thought record label bosses and execs from music video services will be asked to attend a meeting at 10 Downing Street later this month. Publishers of lads mags like Loaded, FHM and Nuts are also expected to be called in to justify their responses to last year’s Bailey Report.
