Soon thereafter, Professor DeBeer and one of his students, Safwan Javed, explored developing an accompanying certification process that would provide clear, ethical choices to music consumers.
As quoted Jean-Michel Jarre, then President of CISAC in his 2015 call on UN for a fairer creative ecosystem: "Equally important in our eyes are the rights of creators.
Without these moral and economic rights, creators would be deprived of ways to sustain a living and continue to create freely, and would also lose control over the use of their works.
Written by Pierre Lalonde, former director of economic research for the Copyright Board of Canada, the report presented comprehensive, empirical evidence that suggested an alternative business model was urgently needed if the digital economy was to be sustainable.
Based upon these findings, the study concluded that fair trade models could prove more effective in creating a virtuous value chain than government regulation because laws simply could not keep pace.