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New Campaign Aims to Get Artists’ Credit When Their Music Is Posted to Social Media By Other DJs

The #RespectTheCreators campaign from AFEM urges DJs to include artist tags and track names when they post music by other producers on social media.

As the electronic music world continues to grapple with how to get producers credit when their tracks are played by other, usually more famous, DJs, a new campaign is attempting to fix the issue on social media. In a statement, AFEM COO Finlay Johnson says that while the campaign “may seem like a straightforward initiative, encouraging people to share and credit new music addresses significant challenges in the discoverability of emerging artists. Hawtin recently expressed his displeasure with the closure on social media, saying that “Aslice was working, and the only problem was that not enough DJs, especially the successful ones, agreed to sign up and share back into the music eco-system that they have built their careers on.

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