Closing the Value Gap: How to Fix Safe Harbours and Save the Creative Middle Class

/ / P a g e 1 0 / / G R O W I N G R E C O G N I T I O N O F T H E V A L U E G A P I N C A N A D A C L O S I N G T H E V A L U E G A P : H O W T O F I X S A F E H A R B O U R S A N D S A V E T H E C R E A T I V E M I D D L E C L A S S The publication of Music Canada’s 2017 report, The Value Gap: Its Origins, Impacts and a Made-in-Canada Approach, came at a time of widespread uncertainty and skeptic. [...] A s o u r c o l l e c t i v e s t o r y t e l l e r s , a n d a s t h e f o u n d a t i o n o f o u r c r e a t i v e e c o n o m y, t h e y h a v e p l a y e d a d e c i s i v e r o l e i n b u i l d i n g c o n s e n s u s o n t h e n e e d t o c l o s e t h e g a p. [...] C a n a d i a n m u s i c i a n a n d r e c o r d l a b e l o w n e r M i r a n d a M u l h o l l a n d h a s t a k e n h e r m e s s a g e t o n u m e r o u s f o r u m s , m e e t i n g s , c o n f e r e n c e s a n d A c o n d e n s e d v e r s i o n c o m m i t t e e s i n C a n a d a a n d o v e r s e a s. [...] A p r i l 2 0 1 9 m e e t i n g o f t h e Wo r l d I n t e l l e c t u a l P r o p e r t y O r g a n i z a t i o n ’ s S t a n d i n g C o m m i t t e e o n C o p y r i g h t a n d R e l a t e d R i g h t s i n G e n e v a , S w i t z e r l a n d , s h e d e l i v e r e d a s p e e c h t o d e l e g a t e s , p e r f o r m e d w i t h h e r g r o u p H a r r o w F a i r , a n d l a u n c h e d a n. [...] / / P a g e 2 2 / / V A L U E G A P U P D A T E A N D T H E C U R R E N T S T A T E O F T H E R E C O R D I N G I N D U S T R Y C L O S I N G T H E V A L U E G A P : H O W T O F I X S A F E H A R B O U R S A N D S A V E T H E C R E A T I V E M I D D L E C L A S S Signs of Recovery in the Recorded Music Industry Following almost two decades of precipitous decline, the recorded music market is now s.