BBMM2015 Focuses On Copyright Term Reduction Seminar And Music Industry Courses In A Year That Also Highlights ‘Race’ & Diversity Within Music
This
Friday a British Black Music Month (BBMM2015) seminar at London’s City
Law School offers a forum for discussing the contentious issue of
shortening the copyright term.
The
term
for literary and musical works has continuously lengthened. Starting
with a term of 14 years for printed works three hundred years ago, it
now stands at life of author plus 70 years for literary and musical
works, and the term for sound recordings recently increased from 50 to
70 years.
Inspired
by the Green Party’s pre-election policy proposal for a shorter term,
the ‘Talking Copyright 6: A Case For Copyright Term Reduction?’ seminar
panelists include Sian Berry (Green Party spokesperson and 2016 London Mayoral candidate), Vick Bain (BASCA: British Academy of Songwriters Composers and Authors CEO), Jim Killock (Open Rights Group Executive Director), Hugh Francis (songwriter & music publisher). Co-chairs are Dr Enrico Bonadio (City University London Law School senior lecturer) and Kwaku (BBM/BMC:
BritishBlackMusic.com/Black Music Congress founder).
BBMM
is an annual BBM/BMC initiative which takes place in June into July. It
highlights domestic black music and industry issues. In addition to the
Talking Copyright strand, the BBMM2015 programme includes music
industry courses, fortnightly seminars at Harrow Mencap, a weekly radio
programme on Brent CommunityRadio.org, and numerous competitions.
To mark the 50th
anniversary of the first Race Relations Act, there will be a discussion
in association with RE:IMI (Race Equality: In Music Industry) and BECTU
(Broadcasting, Entertainment, Cinematograph and Theatre Union) on
‘race’ and ethnicity engagement on July 8 at University of Westminster. A
‘race’ conference is also planned for the autumn.
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