Forever bemoaning the scourge of copyright infringement and the limited legitimate marketing outlets for their work, Caribbean musicians are expected to pay keen interest in a project being undertaken by the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) aimed at determining the feasibility of the creation of a private sector-driven Caribbean music platform to market online music in an effort to increase earnings to the sector.
The Bank will reportedly be putting up most of the funding which is aimed at determining the value of music produced in the region and the efficacy of creating the platform.
Most of the popular music-streaming and online pay sites including Spotify and Amazon are not legally available to the Caribbean, a circumstance that denies the region access to the largest online music stores.