The AMCL - The Association of Media Composers & Lyricists  

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PUBLIC STATEMENT OF SUPPORT

Composers and lyricists are the only creative group within the film and television industry without union representation or pension and health benefits.

We, the undersigned, support the efforts of composers and lyricists to organize in hopes of gaining these essential benefits.

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“Composers are the only creative group in the radio, television, motion picture, recording and other entertainment fields without the protection and guidance of a guild. All other creative groups in these fields, without exception, enjoy the right of collective bargaining in their relations with employers. This standing separately, rather than together as a guild, is one of the primary reasons why fees for composition (as separate from orchestration or arranging) have practically disappeared. Further, the practice of no fee for composition is being carried into television in a frightening percentage of cases. This is only one of many abuses common in these fields, and the composer without an organization to back him up can only accept the situation."

(Drafted in November, 1953, the opening paragraph of a five-page paper declaring the need for a composers' guild.)

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