Today we learn that the UK Government is to examine artist recording contracts, especially those signed by young artists, to try to help them avoid pitfalls and problems further down the line. Much as I support honesty and transparency in all things, I can't help thinking that no politician or civil servant is really equipped to understand the piece of perverted brilliance that the music industry could be - more a troupe of levitating priests than guardians of the nation's sewers or power stations.
But even more sadly, by their ever shriller whining and sourer spitting at anything which comes within their ambit, neither can I help thinking that the BPI and IFPI, and other representative bodies, have invited the Government in to our house without fully anticipating what they would do once there, and that it will all end in tears.
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