That's right. Each young artist who enters the marketplace could be thought of as a start-up. Our government has rightly accorded all kinds of benefits to technology start-ups, and that makes sense. What's missing and what we can add now to redress that balance is to focus on our creators as business people who are creating innovations and who are engaged in business start-ups. Some of them have quite complex little businesses, but all of those businesses are being seriously impaired by the types of injustices that Laurie and Elliott outlined, these very small returns, despite the fact that the music is being used extensively, and around the world.
On June 12th, 2018. See this statement in context.