Among other things, I am also a musician and composer, and I also was a music and video producer years ago. However, I have distanced myself from the collectin

Among other things, I am also a musician and composer, and I also was a music and video producer years ago. However, I have distanced myself from the collecting societies long ago and now distribute most of my music for free and under a Creative Commons license on my website (http://rochus-keller.ch/?cat=3 http://rochus-keller.ch/?cat=3). After analyzing the publicly available financial figures of some collecting societies, it became clear to me that as a musician it is much more helpful if people are able to listen to my music without hindrance (paywalls, etc.), compared to the small amount of revenue that copyrights generate. In my view, copyrights collecting and enforcement are clearly an anachronism that tends to get in the way of most musicians and composers today rather than helping them.