Fair-Trade usually is associated with coffe, but the music industry is in need of it, too. Because often you hear about dubious labels pulling a fast one on musicians and the industry is doing their bit for the bad reputation with excessive CD prices and non-playing CDs with copy protection. No wonder that musicfans turn away from the big record companies and try to find new music in niches as well as on the internet.

The companies who are affiliated to the Fair-Trade-Music-Network and the ones who will affiliate want to change this: They get committed to certain criteria that offer advantages for artists and listeners. Because the working together is better. Some of the most important criteria are:

• low prices for sound mediums
• artistic freedom
• fair payment of musicians

The Network-Partners who are committed to the fair trade criteria by the partner contract can be identified by the partner logo, that only affiliated labels are allowed to use.

The products of these affiliated labels are availabel in shops as well as in the Online-Shop of our joint distributor NovaTune.

The Fair-Trade-Music-Network is open for all labels and music companies.
The criteria catalog as well as the partner contract can be foound here. The label NovaTune organizes the non-exclusive distribution for the affiliated labels that you can use if you want to. The corresponding distribution contract can also be found in the column Model Contracts.

To join as Network-Partner we also need a copy of your trade license and the data of your label like labelcode, previous releases and a model of your artist or production contract.