There is no UK music business without the fans

What if, as several studies of piracy and music purchasing seem to suggest, the good fans (buyers) and the bad fans (illegal downloaders) are the same people?'We want to be No 1": at a time of relative gloom for the music business, you can't accuse the industry body UK Music of ducking a challenge. In Liberating Creativity, the glossy report in which it lays out its aims for the decade, UK Music says it wants Britain to "challenge the United States" for the position of the world's top music prod...

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