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TuneCore founder joins Canadian collecting society
By CMU Editorial | Published on Friday 5 October 2012
Jeff Price, the vocal co-founder of digital distribution firm TuneCore, who was pushed out of that company somewhat suddenly back in August, has just been hired as a consultant at Canadian collecting society SOCAN. He will advise on new digitally-focused initiatives.
SOCAN’s CEO Eric Baptiste told reporters: “SOCAN always works to represent the needs and rights of our members, and Jeff Price will provide us with exciting new concepts that will help us achieve our vision of raising the bar for music rights. Jeff Price is a true visionary in the music industry. His philosophy and ethic when it comes to the rights of songwriters, authors and publishers match nicely with our own”.
Price, who has been critical of some collecting societies in the past, though seemingly not SOCAN, added: “The new music industry is about serving, not exploiting, the artist. SOCAN serves its members by getting them money owed for the public performance of their songs without owning their copyrights. To me, SOCAN is TuneCore on steroids. It has the right vision, philosophy, management, artist base and infrastructure to lead the world on getting musicians, songwriters and publishers back more money, more quickly with transparency”.
