We wish the US Recording Academy well with its new Give Fans The Credit campaign to get digital music services to provide fans with more information on songwriters, producers, engineers and session musicians when playing songs, but we suspect the digital services aren’t the people to lobby. “If music devices can access millions of tracks in the cloud, we’re confident we can find a way to acknowledge those who created the tracks here on earth,” says president and CEO Neil Portnow. This, of course, is a metadata issue: metadata that can only be supplied by the labels when adding their catalogues to the digital services. Startups like Decibel have been working on the problem, but the challenge goes beyond persuading digital services that more credit is due beyond recording artists.
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