Metal Up Your Podcast - All Things Metallica

Kevin Erickson is the director of the Future of Music Coalition, a Washington DC-based nonprofit supporting a musical ecosystem where artists flourish and are compensated fairly and transparently for their work.FMC works with musicians, composers and industry stakeholders to identify solutions and promote strategies, policies, technologies and educational initiatives that always put artists first while recognizing the role music fans play in shaping the future.In February of this year during a livestream for Blizzcon, Metallica was erroneously censored by Twitch for copyright infringement while performing their own song. This triggered an onslaught of media attention about the nature of censorship, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and Metallica’s decades long fixture in the conversation dating back to they infamous public battle with file-sharing company Napster.In this episode, we sat down with Kevin to get to the bottom of all these issues. We discuss the work being done by the Future of Music Co