Artists AWOL In Digital Issues Over Their Work

“With digital distribution of entertainment as the focal point, the TV/film and music industries are embroiled in several disputes between those who create the content and those who distribute it. But while those disputes in Hollywood are well-documented — with powerful unions like the Writers Guild of America and the Screen Actors Guild staging high-profile negotiations and, in some cases, strikes — the perception in the music industry is that artists are largely left to themselves to fight for whatever they can get on their own.”