And one way to counter this is to get the terminology right. Let’s be clear about the separation between the music providing infrastructures (record labels, broadcasters, media, PR, A&R, etc) who are really not much more than the proverbial middle men and the music creators who are the composers, songwriters, performers and indeed the music buying public. We need to have a global term which puts the infrastructure people in their proper place – music servants perhaps. they’re no more the custodians of musical life than I’m the custodian of the UK’s royal heritage.