Proposed for appointment by: Claire Batchelor, Ben Cullum, Paul Farrer, Crispin Hunt, Richard Jacques, David Lowe, Dru Masters, Guy Michelmore, Julian Nott, Debra Wiseman
- Self-employed TV entertainment composer for 27 years, I have music-branded about 200 TV series: children’s / gameshows / reality / fact-ent / news / travel.
- Recent commissions: Mitchell & Webb Are Not Helping (C4), Time Is Money (ITV), Win Win (ITV / Lottery), The Makery (Sky Kids), The Travel Show (BBC).
- Composed and produced around 20 library albums.
- Songwriter and co-writer of single cuts and band concept albums (e.g. Public Symphony).
- In the 90’s, as an artist manager, signed and represented singer-songwriters / recording artistes / record producers / DJ’s: e.g. Sasha, Digweed, Dido, BT, Blue Amazon; Jackpot Records A&R.
- My academic study (M.A., Political Sciences, Cambridge University) helps with the commitment to rigorously scour the hundreds of pages of documents for the Council meetings, to apply critical analysis in search of value for members from the leadership and its running of PRS.
Learning the business of music when I was younger, the elders who championed Rights and educated us that we and our works have worth, were inspirational to me for their tireless efforts and heroic messaging.
From my self-employed work journey, I bring that same drive, tenacity, responsibility that Writers’ representation needs. I feel an energetic calling to promote the rights of my peers and future generations of creators, to give back, and serve you inside a PRS that we love.
I stand to protect our income streams for human copyrights and skilled craft versus growing market disruption, and against publisher overreach into our equitable share of income through predatory deals.
- Appointed to PRS Licensing Committee Advisory Group in 2025
- PRS Media Group since 2018
- Speaker at The Musicians’ Union and IVORS events
- MU Writers Section
Writer representatives need to cooperate across organisations, and I hope to effect progress for Writers’ issues via cross-collaboration strategies with Ivors / MU.
Inside PRS' decision-making Council, please vote for me to champion you.
Current and recent directorships: Adage Music Limited
Manifesto
I’m Dobs Vye, longtime composer for TV entertainment, library music, & songwriter.
I aim to challenge PRS and proactively champion Writers:
- A tsunami of AI slop and word-prompted spam is an existential threat to the value of music, livelihoods, skills, and the future of PRS itself.
PRS needs emergency measures to defend against market disruption, strategise to protect and enshrine rights, to champion human musicians & writers in future licensing deals, not word-prompters.
Let’s have higher barriers to registering AI-generated works; audio testing to filter out fraudulent slop from earning royalties; negotiate via blanket licensing deals with content platforms, especially our Public Service Broadcasters in the UK, to uphold and enshrine human crafted copyrights.
- PRS Writer Query system - unresponsive, anonymous, timeless, dissatisfactory, with unresolved Queries going back years. Let’s have a visible communication trail, a personal contact, and an aspirational timeline for effective resolutions.
- PRS’ splitting on-demand TV income 50% with MCPS encourages prodco publishers to ‘buyout’ mechanical income, imbalancing writers’ equitable share: American creep does not reflect our UK broadcast model, and this needs addressing within PRS/MCPS by reviewing splits with MCPS.
- PRS should expand easier access to OUR data in searching cue sheets, usage and publishing details, and real-time forecasting of Distribution payments.
