7 National & Representative Partners
CEEMID had been working with about 100 music and music professional organizations since 2014 to survey music professionals (artists, technicians and managers.)
7.1 Cooperation with Consolidated Independent
Consolidated Independent has commissioned CEEMID to conduct the survey in the following countries:
- Australia
- Argentina
- Belgium
- Canada
- Brazil
- Italy
- France
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Portugal
- Spain
- United Kingdom
- United States of America
In these countries, survey recipients will receive a local version where it is clearly stated that:
- The survey & accompanying report was commissioned by Consolidated Independent
- Consolidated Independent has the right to publish the results of the survey in a report compiled by CEEMID, and it has the right to publish the statistical indicators.
In these countries, should other organizations contribute financially to the execution of the survey with other resources than distributing the questionnaire links among their own members, internal forums or mailing lists, we need ask them to contact CEEMID directly for proper disclosure of their contribution and their agreement with our steps to Data handling, data integrity and data use. We will only disclose the name of the organization, the type of support it gave to the survey on this website. We will also ask a technical contact person on their behalf who will receive the information on access to the survey for the members, and a helpline in case of technical problems or potential vandalism or other attacks that may impede the integrity of the results.
7.2 Other countries
In other countries, our survey data will either go directly to music.dataobservatory.eu, or local partners will make a decision on publishing the results as individually agreed.
7.3 Participation in the surveys
Participation in our survey is fully voluntary, anonymous, we do not collect personal information, and we do not know who fills out our surveys. National partners only must make sure that the access to the online survey link is communicated to music professionals, i.e. their members or contact lists.
To avoid fake answers, we only distribute the survey via professional music organizations, who send out the link to the survey via their usual communication channels (in cover letters to royalty statements, newsletters, a letter to members, etc.) We never ask the names, addresses of recipients.
Communicating the link to the research program does not require opt-in from the organizations members, because our surveys support the core activities of music organizations: to represent better members’ interests, increase royalty revenues, and advocate better regulation or crisis recovery measures.
We translate the survey to the partner’s language(s) after considering feedback to our Generic English survey. We can accommodate small changes, given that we are planning to cover about 70% of the world market with our survey this year.
We ask our partners to proof-read the final national language survey, with particular attention to country-specific information (regions, membership in organizations, etc.)
After your confirmation, you will get a dedicated link that you can communicate to your members. You will get updates about preliminary results, and you will get the final results.
The survey program started and grew out of the European Union, so we apply data handling rules in the EU. We believe that these are equal or stricter than in non-EU countries. We work only with anonymous data, we do not handle names, addresses.
You can read more about how we use and protect the data.