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Monstercat Calls Out the Music Industry's Restrictive Copyright Laws

The Vancouver collective released a fiery political manifesto along with its latest compilation.

The 18th compilation from Vancouver-based dubstep/glitch-hop collective Monstercat is more than a collection of floor smashers—it's become an opportunity for the label to take a stand on copyright reform. Today, they released Monstercat 018, Frontier, along with the Monstercat Manifesto, a page-long document that calls for more creative freedom and fewer copyright-related lawsuits. It lambasts the "major label stance" that sets strict rules on what belongs to whom, limits artists' ability to create new works of art from original masterpieces and stops fans from sharing the music they love on their own media channels.

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The Manifesto holds that industry's focus should be on creative freedom instead of restraint—fans should be encouraged to share music rather than punished for it. "The use of another's work as part of something new is not theft. It's innovation," the Monstercat crew wrote. "The sharing of music by fans on their own social channels is not theft. It's celebration."

Peep the label's latest compilation, Frontier, along with the Monstercat Manifesto, below.

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