About Fair Play

Fair Play is an independent initiative dedicated to examining how electronic music royalties are collected, distributed, and paid to the creators who drive club culture. Supported and operated by a multidisciplinary team of artists and industry professionals, including members of the now-closed creator payment system Aslice and research agency Audience Strategies, they conduct annual audits of performance rights and royalty systems across key global territories, beginning with the UK in November 2025, with further regions to follow.

Born from the need for unbiased analysis in an increasingly complex ecosystem, Fair Play surfaces real-world data and provides transparent benchmarks for the industry – the kind of deep analysis that media outlets and individual stakeholders cannot afford to commission themselves. Our mission is simple: empower artists, rights-holders, and operators with evidence-based insights, supporting innovation, accountability, and fairer outcomes across electronic music.

Fair Play focuses exclusively on research, documentation, and education. We don't operate a payment platform or collection system. Instead, we provide independent analysis that can inform stakeholders and support positive change across existing systems.

The UK represents one of the world's most significant electronic music markets with a well-established collection society, venue network, and technology deployment. It provides an excellent baseline for our research methodology that we can expand to other territories in future reports.

The report will be available in November 2025. You can register now on our Report page to receive access as soon as it's released. Both the comprehensive report and a condensed executive summary will be available.

Fair Play is a grassroots initiative funded through individual contributions and the voluntary time of our team members. We maintain strict independence from any entities we research to ensure unbiased reporting.

Yes! If you're involved in the electronic music industry as an artist, venue, technology provider, or collection society, we welcome your insights. Please contact us through our Contact page to discuss how you might contribute to our research.

You can support our work through financial contributions on our Support page, by sharing our research when published, by participating in our interviews and surveys, or by connecting us with relevant stakeholders in the industry.

Yes, our long-term vision includes expanding our research to cover territories such as Germany, the Netherlands, the US, Australia, and others. The timing of this expansion depends on securing appropriate funding and resources.

Our aim is to publish multiple reports each year that track progress and changes in the industry over time. The UK report represents our inaugural publication, with plans to expand our research in subsequent years.

No. Fair Play maintains complete independence from all companies, collection societies, and technology providers that we research. This ensures we can provide unbiased analysis and recommendations.

We take a multi-source approach to data collection. We're working directly with PROs and music recognition technology companies to obtain official data. Additionally, we also conduct our own industry surveys with respondents from across the electronic music ecosystem. This combination of official statistics, technology provider data, and first-hand industry insights ensures our findings reflect the true state of the royalty landscape.