FAIR CREDIT, FAIR PAY: THE INTERSTELLAR MANIFESTO FOR MUSIC TRANSPARENCY
This message has been transcribed from synthetic soundwave transmissions from Mechtropolis.
⚡ THE INTERSTELLAR MANIFESTO FOR MUSIC TRANSPARENCY
By Botz Music Enterprises
(An Interstellar Dispatch from Mechtropolis)
🎙️ INTRODUCTION: THE SYSTEM IS BROKEN
The modern music industry is a masterpiece of sound—and a disaster of accountability.
While technology has advanced light-years ahead, the systems responsible for paying artists are stuck in the Stone Age. Musicians who create the world’s soundtracks are left guessing where their income originates, watching trillions flow through digital pipelines with no receipts, no transparency, and no justice.
The lack of clarity is not an accident. It’s a design flaw—and a profitable one.
💰 PAYOLA BY ANOTHER NAME
The spirit of payola never died; it simply rebranded.
Streaming manipulation, playlist gatekeeping, and opaque “promotional agreements” ensure that visibility is bought, not earned. The platforms profit. The corporations profit. The artists? They get exposure—and exposure doesn’t pay rent.
When influence can be purchased and discovery can be throttled, creativity itself becomes currency-controlled. The art loses its autonomy, and the artists lose their rights.
🧾 WHERE ARE THE RECEIPTS?
Publishing Rights Organizations and Digital Service Providers claim to represent the best interests of musicians. Yet most cannot provide consistent, verifiable records of where funds come from, who paid them, or how they were distributed.
Artists are told to “trust the process.”
We don’t.
Transparency means proof.
It means itemized breakdowns, not vague lump sums.
It means the end of “black box” royalties—where unclaimed or untraceable money is quietly redistributed to top earners.
Accountability should not be optional. It should be the foundation of every transaction involving an artist’s intellectual property.
🌍 THE INVISIBLE ROYALTY CHAINS
Every song crosses borders. Every border multiplies confusion.
Neighboring rights, sync rights, performance rights, mechanical rights—each adds another layer of intermediaries, each taking a cut, each extending the delay between art and payment.
Trillions of dollars in royalties are lost yearly due to incomplete metadata, outdated databases, and international hand-offs and repackaged and bundled intellectual properties.
Musicians are left wondering why the world sings their songs while their statements stay silent.
This is not just inefficiency—it’s negligence.
🛑 NO MORE FRAGMENTED OWNERSHIP
Music should never be divided into fractions or sold off in pieces like stock.
Art is not a commodity—it’s a creation.
Every song deserves clear, unified ownership and direct accountability between the artist, the listener, and the platform profiting from it.
We reject models that turn creativity into fractionalized assets or treat artistic rights as speculative currency.
Real art belongs to its creator.
Real credit belongs to its origin.
🔊 TRANSPARENCY IS NOT OPTIONAL
We reject secrecy as the price of participation.
We demand transparent accounting ledgers, clear licensing structures, and mandatory receipts for every single royalty payment.
We call for a full audit of performance rights organizations, labels, and distributors that profit from invisible transactions.
If they cannot explain where the money comes from, they should not be handling it.
🚀 A CALL TO REBOOT
This is not just a demand—it’s a declaration.
Botz Music Enterprises stands for a future where every artist, independent or signed, knows exactly how their sound travels and how their value is measured.
We envision an ecosystem where transparency is the default, not the exception.
Where artists are treated not as data points, but as contributors to a global creative economy that respects their craft, their time, and their truth.
The future of music is honest.
The future of music is fair.
The future of music is now.
⚡ SIGNED:
BOTZ MUSIC ENTERPRISES
From the sound laboratories of Mechtropolis
