AFEM INITIATIVES
Get Played Get Paid
AFEM is working with Collective Rights Management Organisations (CMOS) globally to move royalty distributions resulting from DJ performances at festivals and in clubs to ‘pay per play’ using Music Recognition Technology provided by AFEM members. Since the start of our campaign in 2014, the number of territories in which CMOs utilise Music Recognition Technology services at DJ events to enable identification of the tracks played and more accurate royalty payments has grown from 3 to 17 globally. AFEM continues its efforts in this area spearheaded by our CMO Relations Working Group.
Health
The AFEM Health working group is set up with the aim to help protect mental & physical health of fans & professionals through educaiton and posting to support available.
Diversity and Inclusion
From festival line-ups to conference speakers and choices made by employers, AFEM seeks to raise awareness of the need for increasing diversity and inclusion across all aspects of the genre.
Green Initiatives
Our Green Initiatives Working Group’s main focus is to advocate for environmentally sustainable practices to be adopted by all those involved in electronic music.
Digital Service Provider Relations
Our DSP Relations Working Group is set up to connect our members to identify and solve electronic music-specific issues relating online music services.
Anti-Piracy
AFEM works with rightsholder members and anti-piracy partners to disrupt the illegal services that obtain and sell our members music without permission. Raising awareness among the DJ community of the damage caused to the scene by using illegal DJ download subscription services.
Metadata
Our Metadata Working Group is set up to create and signpost to credible metadata education resources. Identify and solve metadata issues relating to electronic music.
NFT & Emerging Technology
Working Group educating the Electronic Music Community on Non-Fungible Tokens (“NFT’”) and Digital Collectibles in easy terms. Defining what they are, how they work, what the challenges are and the – current – best practices around their creation and sale.
AFEM Working Groups 2022
AFEM connect those members who wish to engage in helping shape and drive our initiatives through a number of focused working groups.
Group interaction occurs via physical meetings at major conferences like IMS & ADE, video conference calls and email groups.
A summary overview of the current groups can be found here: Link to Work Groups Overview