FYI... Dear Guardian,
No matter which way the report and the government go on this critical issue, it is important for your readers to realize that music business executives the likes of the PPL's Fran Nevrkla, who I sat beside and argued with on a copyright panel last year (MusicTank), and the BPI's Peter Jamieson, do not speak on behalf of artists or even in the interests of performing artists, as Jamieson claims. The industry - major record companies and music publishers and their peons - have obstinately and perversely pretended to stand up for artists' rights and performers' rights when in fact it is their own overpaid salaries and corporate copyrights (often misapropriated from artists under questionable contracts) that they seek to protect from newer, valid and progressive approaches to copyright and music on the internet. The snipe at "academics and other 'thinkers' " clearly evokes their totalitarianist status quo. It is high time someone launch an anti-trust investigation on the MCPS/PRS Alliance, PPL, and other such copyright regimes that claim to represent all music makers. They do not. Quite frankly, songwriters, musicians and performers need better, more transparent alternatives. Sincerely, Neil Leyton (artist and indie label director) Fading Ways Music On 11/29/06, Crosbie Fitch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
"wish to see copyright downgraded if not destroyed" The quality of academics and thinkers these days! I don't know. ;-) At least the rights societies recognise their greatest threat comes not from the ignorance of their treasured passive consumers, but the well considered arguments of free culture theorists and activists. Why are students and intellectuals always first against the wall when incumbents feel threatened? ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Berry Sent: Wednesday, 29 November 2006 2:28pm To: UK FreeCulture Discuss List; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [fc-uk-discuss] Bloody academics... ;-) Music business fights the 50-year rule Fran Nevrkla, the (insane) chief executive of rights societies the PPL and the VPL, said if the predictions were accurate then Mr Gowers "had got things very wrong". "I sincerely hope this government will have the moral fibre and courage to support talent, creativity, investment and success and will not duck this critical issue by conveniently hiding behind academics and other 'thinkers', many of whom wish to see copyright downgraded if not destroyed," he said. http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,1958337,00.html _______________________________________________ fc-uk-discuss mailing list fc-uk-discuss@lists.okfn.org http://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/fc-uk-discuss
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