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Article: Record industry joins battle against fly-by-night fan clubs
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- March 10, 1997
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The British Phonographic Industry will today host the latest
stage in a four-year battle by teenage pop fans to get a fair deal
from fan clubs.
The meeting has been organised by Short Change, the children's
consumer programme on BBC1, which has been campaigning against fan
clubs which take money from young fans and often give them little
or nothing in return.
Short Change wants the representatives of PolyGram, MCA Music
and reputable fan clubs who will be present to set up a trade
association.
Hundreds of fan clubs exist in the UK, many legitimate and run
by friends of the bands as a labour of love in the spare bedroom.
But there are also many fly-by-night operations working out of post ...