composers instead of the likes of mozart and beethoven to help them financially you're in lockdown the ivers academy which represents british composers says the royalty payments would help musicians and introduce the public to lesser known works most artists are self employed and despite the government pledge to pay 80 percent of average profits over 3 years incomes in the music industry can vary substantially years a year in response the radio 3 controller said he was focused on keeping the station on air and that playing the music of living composers is already part of the plan or critics are concerned that such music simply isn't as popular chair of the ivers akademi i should say chair of the ivers academy classical committee gary carpenter told us morton classical music is actually very accessible. a lot of music that performs. that is actually starting copyright novolin williams stravinsky shostakovich and so forth so it's not really so much a financial issue it's just a question or perhaps getting some of the program roberts who was living composers in particular british and archons as we're t