The Council of Music Creators is a non-profit membership organization founded in New York in 2013, and made up of songwriters and composers from across the United States who have joined together to promote and strengthen the right of music creators to control the use of our work and to share fairly in its exploitation. We are a contemporary grassroots organization knit together by common ideology and a desire to preserve the professions of songwriting and composing for the next generation of music creators.
We recognize that changes in the music business are inevitable, and we embrace those that help us reach wider audiences, increase respect for our art, and improve transparency within our business. However, we vigorously oppose changes that enable illegal or unauthorized use of our work, allow others to unfairly benefit-whether directly or indirectly-from its use, decrease transparency in our business transactions, or diminish our right to license our works through the entities we choose.