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James Millard is a Kansas City sessions drummer who recently started posting on a2f2a.com and p2pnet.

He also drums for Tuesday Blues and, “I’ve been lurking around these boards for quite a while, observing up what others have to offer”, he says, going on:

“I never thought I’d have anything to offer myself (but I’m finding myself making a lot of RW’s lately), and after the RW’s I made earlier on this thread, I think it’s time to register and come out of the shadows. I’m also now registered with a2f2a.”

Welcome, James.

So why did he decide to start posting as himself, so to speak.

FUD.

In a p2pnet Reader’s Write to London, England’s, Devilish Presley on Rock Tsars, he says he’s still seeing a lot of it out there.

“FUD stands for Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt”, James observes, going on >>>

And I think it’s time that artists ourselves take a more active role in this discussion and in the future of music.

After all, it is our careers and our work that everyone is talking about.

I would also like to talk more about the idea of having exclusive rights to own our art and how we choose to share it. I think that should be the central focus of every discussion related to music.

I know people are upset with copyright laws, as the laws are currently written and applied, but artists can voluntarily choose to be more open and free with our music, without changing copyright laws.

I would love to see copyright laws changed but that is a long, hard-fought battle that won’t be won easily.

In the meantime, there is nothing that keeps us from joining together with our fans and saying F*CK copyright laws, we are giving our fans “permission” to OWN what they have paid for (I don’t believe fans need “permission” to own what they pay for, I believe it is a consumer’s right to own what they paid for).

James adds:

“And the sooner the majority of artists make their music free (not as in beer, but as in speech), the more we negate current copyright laws.”