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PUBLIC TESTIMONY
Testimony by Marshall Moran, Music Worker and Advocate from United Musicians and Allied Workers
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Marshall Moran, a music worker and advocate from United Musicians and Allied Workers, testifies about the struggles faced by the music industry due to declining streaming revenue. He emphasizes the need for fair compensation for all music workers, including non-featured performers, and supports the Living Wage for Musicians Act.
- Moran describes the contraction of the music ecosystem as artists lose revenue streams
- He highlights the importance of the LWMA in creating revenue for non-featured performers
- Moran stresses the need for a sustainable music ecosystem that protects and fairly compensates all music workers
Marshall Moran
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Hi.
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I'm Marshall Moran.
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I live in Ridgewood, New York.
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Lived in New York most of my life now.
1:33:24
Jeez.
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I am an audio engineer, a musician, a teacher, and I just work in music like everybody here.
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We're all music workers.
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The entire industry has suffered.
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As streaming revenue has like gone down for artists, as artists have lost money coming out of what Damon Kraszowski was talking about, eras before streaming.
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I've watched this community like contract.
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It's horrible.
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I've I just always wanted to be a music worker.
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I just wanted to be able to play cool fun music with my friends and work jobs that would support everything.
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I've watched the entire ecosystem contract as people can't pull in revenue.
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I've watched experimental jazz musicians like people who've been here.
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I've watched it.
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They've lost major forms of revenue.
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They always had to work other jobs.
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This isn't right.
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Like everybody said here, we don't want to lose any of this.
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One part of the LWMA that's important to me I should mention I'm an organizer with UMA as well.
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One of the aspects of this bill that's very important to me personally, and I just want to say here is the revenue stream it would create carves out money for non featured performers.
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What that means is if you're someone that worked on a record, you gave it your all, you get money for that.
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You get you get a special like like you're getting royalty and you're getting acknowledged for that.
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So there's a lane for awarding people who worked on your records to make sure that they also are compensated fairly.
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And that in the spirit of everything with the LWA, that's what we're looking for is to compensate everybody fairly.
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To what everybody has said here, we can have a sustainable music ecosystem because I don't think anybody doesn't feel that way who's spoken here, that we need to protect this.
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So thank you for letting me speak.
Carmen de la Rosa
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Thank you so much.