Last week I was invited to participate at the event ‘Back to Basics: Deconstructing Intellectual property Protection for Music’ organised by the Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society and Haus de Kulturen de Welt in Berlin. To close the event, the chairs asked participants to state one thing that in their opinions would improve the rights for musicians. The answers were varied and less focussed on the copyright system itself than on the processes of copyright reform and on the management of rights. My own answer is that musicians need to learn more about their rights, so that they can take responsibility for the direction of these rights, campaigning and enforcing these by leveraging their large audiences.