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<DIV>A superb idea in principle, but the legal costs and practical hurdles
could be huge. The incumbents are also well placed and funded to lobby
government and appear before the Copyright Tribunal to object to a new
entrant.</DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Calibri></FONT><FONT face=Calibri></FONT><BR>Finally the biggest
hurdle is that all the artists and record companies would have to sign up to the
scheme, which again no doubt the incumbents would heavily pressure them not to
do even if they were inclined to do so.</DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Calibri>Alex</FONT></DIV>
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style="FONT: 10pt arial; BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=lockwood@btinternet.com href="mailto:lockwood@btinternet.com">Trevor
Lockwood</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=cma-l@commedia.org.uk
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, August 03, 2011 12:12
PM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [cma-l] Copyright Changes
Proposed</DIV>
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<TD vAlign=top>Gary<BR><BR>I agree the changes are necessary. I remain
concerned about PPL and PRS, a commercial company operating under a
section of the design, trademark protection legislation, that appears to
have a stranglehold on the distribution of musical content.<BR><BR>There
are many stories about the heavy-handed and legalistic attitude they
adopt, but the situation still remains very unclear. I'd like to see a
very clear statement about what has to be paid, what happens to that
money, how our local artistes can receive some of that money, and
whether such a company should have that responsibility. Perhaps it could
be a 'nice little earner' for OfCom?<BR><BR>To suggest that we can
'choose' which of eight stations we are most like, and then to say that
these chosen stations will be monitored occasionally is not sufficient.
It's clear that many stations are being forced to pay more than they
should, that local musicians gain nothing and, I understand, the CEO of
this organisation is paid £600,000 a year for this 'service'. We have
the technology to create a much fairer system - and maybe we make the
subject of that NESTA grant that's now available?<BR><BR>Failing an
adequate explanation, and given the current income they must be
receiving from the community sector I can see no economic reason why we
shouldn't set up a rival service.<BR><BR>There's a cat for you stool
pigeons.<BR><BR>Trevor</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
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