At our ____, songwriters are creators. We ____ ourselves and others to ____ on the world around us. And the work we produce has power - power to ____ people's emotions and imaginations like few other art forms, power to ____ traditional barriers of age, language and culture, and power to generate positive social change.But does our work as songwriters have value? Coming from someone who has spent his life working hard to master his ____ in order to touch the lives of others, that may seem like an ____ question. But in today's ____ changing music marketplace, the answer is increasingly unclear. Just this week, Taylor Swift ____ her music from Spotify - not because she doesn't want you to ____ her songs, but because she wants to be compensated ____ for her work. She wants Spotify to treat her work as though it has ____. This problem ought to cause anyone who cares about the future of music -professionals and farm alike - to stand up and take note. First, ____ most people in creative industries, songwriters seem to have less control over our work than ever before. If you copy a handbag design from a ____ fashion house or use a sports team's logo in your new T-shirt line, you can soon expect problems with the law. And just try copying a big tech company's ____ innovation. You need ____ permission from the original creators to use or copy their work before you resell it. That's how they ____ the value of their work. But the world doesn't work that way for songwriters. We have no ____ to protect the value of the music we create. The ridiculously low ____ songwriters are paid by streaming services are yet another ____ our work is being ____ in today's marketplace. Consider the fact that it takes ____ one million spins on Pandora for a songwriter to earn just $90. Avicii's ____ Woke Me Up? that I co-wrote and sing, for example, was the most streamed song in Spotify history and the 13th most played song on Pandora since its release in 2013, with more than 168 million streams in the US. And yet, that made only $12,359 in Pandora domestic ____ - which were then divided between three songwriters and our publishers. If that's what's now considered a streaming 'success story', is it any wonder that so many songwriters are now ____ to get by?The reality is that ____ and downloading songs have given way to streaming, and as a result, the money that songwriters depended on for years to make a living is now drying up. But the irony of the situation is that our music is actually being enjoyed by more people in more places than ever before. Our work clearly does have value, of course, or else it would not be in such ____ demand. So why aren't songwriters compensated more ____ in the marketplace? I, for one, can no ____ stand and just watch as songwriters are left out in the cold, while streaming company executives build their fortunes thanks to our hard work. Songwriting is truly a ____ of love, one that often does not result in wealth. But I know the work we create has real value. And I believe people will one day recognise that a system that allows digital streaming services to enjoy enormous ____ while music creators struggle is ____ and broken. You can also do your part to protect the music you love by buying albums and ____ streaming services to respect the value of songwriting. After all, if songwriters can't ____ to make music, then who will?

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