Playing Devil's advocate, I reckon they would say that they all want the best for the artist, but they differ about how to deliver it. Each collection agency will argue that their way of distributing revenues gets more to artists, or to the widest number of artists, or the most 'deserving' artists, than another agency's method. On that basis, it's only right that they, and their method, should be the one that is used.
Sadly, because of the way things work in Europe (and the UK is a particularly bad example), a lot of newspapers and politicians will happily play along with the narrative that the EU is trying to force 'our' artists to accept a rights collection method that is less effective than our national rights agencies offer.
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Sadly, because of the way things work in Europe (and the UK is a particularly bad example), a lot of newspapers and politicians will happily play along with the narrative that the EU is trying to force 'our' artists to accept a rights collection method that is less effective than our national rights agencies offer.
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