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7575 artists soundexchange can't find

| P2P:- CounterPunch’s Dave Marsh once said of Fred Wilhelms, the Nashville entertainment lawyer, “If the corporate music industry had any ethics, Wilhelms would be its ‘ethicist-in-chief’.”

At the end of April he and I started Project Unfound Artist, an experiment in crowdsharing to see if the ordinary denizens of the Internet could cut into the 7,872 names posted on the SoundExchange website as artists they had been unsuccessful in getting registered.

The project was stimulated by the report of John Simson’s [Soundexchange's noble leader] comments at Harvard in which he admitted that there were actually over 40,000 artists who were owed money.

Fred generously includes me in this, but he did all  the work.

I originally posted Fred’s write-up, together with the entire list, 11 days ago. It was on line for a while but the whole thing  mysteriously vanished about seven days back, as far as I can tell,and now WP steadfastedly refuses to allow me to re-post it.

So I’ve saved it as a .txt file which you can download by clicking here .

I have no idea why that happened and I can only guess since the list is so huge it was somehow deleted by Word Press, which definitely has its moments.

Be that as it may, here’s Fred’s original write-up.

Cheers! And thanks …

Jon Newton – p2pnet Since the project started, 297 names have been removed from the website list.  That doesn’t sound like a lot, and in overall terms, it is only 4% of the list as it existed when we started.  Comparatively, however, it is an astounding success.  In the 17 weeks between January 1 and the start of the project, SoundExchange, left to its own efforts and those of a few individuals like me, removed 145 names from the list, or fewer than half the names removed in the 11 weeks since the project started. In fact, the artists registered in the less than three months since the Project began exceeds the number of artists registered by SoundExchange in the previous EIGHT months.