Over 700 indie labels join forces for “Fair Digital Deals Declaration”

Matador, 4AD, Epitaph, Sub Pop, Drag City, Merge, Secretly Canadian, Saddle Creek, Jagjaguwar, Captured Tracks, XL, Domino, and nearly 700 other indie labels worldwide have signed the new “Fair Digital Deals Declaration”. As Billboard reports, the initiative was set up by Worldwide Independent Network (WIN) “to treat their artists fairly in agreements relating to digital exploitation of artists’ work in recorded music agreements with third parties.”