Emma Pike, Chief Exec. British Music Rights, Co-Chairman, Music Business Forum, speaking at Copyright Review: Getting The Rights Balance said: “In an experience economy, do we want to slap a two thousand pound fine on customers?” But, she added: “Right now it#039s the creator which is bearing the full load of value.”
“Intellectual property is the bedrock of the creative economy. The Labour Manifesto committed us to “modernise copyright and other forms of protection of intellectual property rights so that they are appropriate for the digital age…. an information rich society needs an easy exchange of ideas – after all, creativity often comes from collaboration, from putting existing ideas together in new ways. So, we need an IP framework that balances the
[Ahmedabad.com]: The head of the intellectual property rights association for the Indian Music Industry, said Gujarat in India is a big center for piracy and almost 80 per cent of inlaid covers used in duplicate cassettes, are printed in Ahmedabad.
Any owner of copyright can license anything. What changes is whether you can control anything as a copyright, or if you try to monetise the anarchy. It#039s very easy to point fingers at the record industry, but the people on the Napster side of the desk have crossed and are trying to find legitimate ways of making P2P work. The industry has to trat the Net like radio and TV
Shannon Ferguson, Yahoo Music Europe said: Both ad-supported and subscription with be the model for Yahoo Music Europe. We compete more against the free music than against other music subscription services. I think there is some price senstivity. Less people have taken the portable tier and that#039s a reflection of the fact that there#039s not enough portable devices out there.
MusicBites is live blogging from the MusicAlly debate on “Does Digital devalue Music“. The line-up: Keynote address: Adam Singer, Group CEO, MCPS-PRS Alliance Thomas Gewecke, SVP Digital, Sony BMG Panel discussion: John Benedict, Partner, Benedicts Grant Tim Clark, Partner, IE Music Wayne Rosso, CEO, Mashboxx Shannon Ferguson, Director, Yahoo Music Europe Chair: Paul Brindley, MD, MusicAlly
Thomas Gewecke, SVP Digital, Sony BMG started by saying “we#039re big”. “Piracy distorts everything and takes away from the underlying value of music.” “Digital is now an integral part of our producing music. It is a fundamentally part of the work we create.” “That activity is going to grow. It changes everything we do in terms of promting and distributing.” “Digital does not destroy the CD, it creates a wide
Digital doesn’t devalue music. Absolutely not. But to whom does it deliver the value? There are proliferating opportunities to create black boxes – hiding revenue from artists. Digital can help to deliver transparency. As artists representatives this is what we want to talk about. Digital can deliver this and there#039s no reason why it shouldn#039t. Culturally we are worse off is artists are worse off. Artists need protecting – anyone
Adam Singer MCPRS: “The music industry is first and foremost about harnessing ther technology. If copyright and tech grow up together then you also change the nature of copyright.” “Nature dislikes difference. Similarly in the music industry, copyright must adapt to new technology. “How do we react? There is a cultureof fear among music industry executives addicted to the past.” He quoted Stanley Baldwin “We should accept this is a
Reuters reports that the music industry wants China to shut down pirate music factories and jail the perpetrators if it is going to keep its promise to address the $250 billion-a-year problems, according to the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry.