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Saturday, April 19, 2014

Musicians Union Holds Rally to Protest Outsourcing of Film Scoring Jobs

Variety: Using the Kevin Costner film “Draft Day” as an example, the American Federation of Musicians on Thursday launched a campaign designed to stop producers from sending scoring jobs to musicians outside the U.S.

At a Westwood rally attended by about 75 musicians and members of other unions, AFM president Ray Hair contended that Lionsgate accepted $5 million in Ohio tax credits but then “outsourced” the music by recording it in Macedonia.

Lionsgate did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

2 comments:

Kameron Kierce said...

I'm completely okay with this, and I'm not mad for them to try to stop what is going on. We should try to preserve the jobs for the people in our country. This gets very political. After thinking it over I'm not quite sure if it would be okay for american filmakers to collaborate with others outside of the country, because once you think about it, it's just different people making art or telling a story, which really shouldn't be a crime.

Kameron Kierce said...

I'm completely okay with this, and I'm not mad for them to try to stop what is going on. We should try to preserve the jobs for the people in our country. This gets very political. After thinking it over I'm not quite sure if it would be okay for american filmakers to collaborate with others outside of the country, because once you think about it, it's just different people making art or telling a story, which really shouldn't be a crime.