Manifesto

Father Figure Records is a record-label that is devoted to promoting music to fans without criminalizing same fans for helping Father Figure Records with introducing and promoting this music to the world. We’re thrilled about new, innovative technologies that facilitate the spread and distribution of the music we love, and brings new ears to undiscovered music. We do not wish to criminalize our fans, who might end up buying the artists t-shirts, paying for a ticket to a show and buying a vinyl or a CD at this very show, and then hopefully spread the word to their friends on Facebook, Twitter and this thing called real-life. We are confident that people that follow our label or our bands are mass-consumers of independent music and culture in one way or another. We have decided to work only with music licensed under Creative Commons. This way we enable fans to remix our artists work, and this way the fans can participate in creating the culture that surrounds us, instead of only consuming it. In a time where so many people have the tools to express themselves artistically, facilitated by new media that enable individuals to sample and remix art and distribute this renewed art to thousands of people (potentially millions), we see no reason to why we should hinder this stream of creativity and reflection. We simply think it’s wrong to lock down art and culture in such a manner, and over such an extremely extended period of time, as the copyright-law now dictates.

Take a minute to read about Creative Commons here http://creativecommons.org/