Tom Waits, Tori Amos, Ozzy Osbourne, My Morning Jacket, Jeff Beck, McCoy Tyner, Duran Duran, And Kelly Clarkson Join Music Industry Executives To Select 2011 ISC Winners
August 9, 2011 – The prestigious International Songwriting Competition (ISC) has assembled a distinguished panel of judges for its 2011 competition. With the most high-profile judging panel of any music competition in the world, ISC offers songwriters and artists the unprecedented opportunity to have their music heard by iconic recording artists, as well as many major and indie record label Presidents, A&R executives, producers, music supervisors, and more.
Now accepting entries for the 2011 competition, ISC gives away more than $150,000 in cash and prizes (shared among the 68 winners) including an overall Grand Prize consisting of $25,000 (US) cash and $20,000 in prizes. Open to all levels of songwriters, ISC offers 22 categories that include all genres of popular music. Past winners have included artists from Grammy winners to hobbyist songwriters and everyone in between.
WIN THE CHANCE TO JOIN THE OFFICIAL LINE-UP FOR ARTHUR'S DAY 2011! PLUS LOADS OF OTHER BRILLIANT PRIZES…
Irish bands who think they have what it takes to play on the world stage are being given their chance to prove it. Guinness, in association with Hot Press and RTÉ 2fm, are offering Irish bands the ultimate opportunity: to play the main stage on Arthur's Day in Dublin. The Play On The Day competition will form an integral part of this year's celebrations.
The nationwide search, which covers the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland, is open to all contenders performing in any musical style or genre. The judges are looking for an act that will bring something extra special to the Arthur's Day line-up, and who will also benefit most from the brilliant platform which the competition offers. Guinness, Hot Press and RTÉ 2fm have put together a brilliant prize package, worth well in excess of €10,000 to the winner.
• The opportunity to play the Main Stage at the Guinness Hop Store on Arthur's Day
• A full three-day recording session with a senior RecordProducer, in RTÉ studios
• A special Flip Cover of Hot Press including a full professional photo session and interview
• A label to release the single, with no strings attached.
• A place for a band member/manager on Hot Press' MIX course including consultation with industry experts
• €4,000 worth of Guitars from FENDER
• €4,000 worth of Drums & Keyboards from YAMAHA
• €3,000 Gift Voucher from WALTON'S MUSIC
REGIONAL WINNERS' PRIZE PACKAGE will include:
• To join the line-up for Arthur's Day in one of four locations across Ireland
• An in-studio session for broadcast by RTÉ 2fm, to stream on hotpress.comand for the band's own use
• To feature on a special flip cover of Hot Press including full professional photo session and interview
ARTHUR'S DAY makes a welcome return on September 22, 2011. As ever, this year will see an incredible line-up of Irish and international music stars raising a glass to Arthur in a series of intimate gigs in select venues and pubs across Ireland on a day of music and celebration.
Acts already confirmed for Arthur's Day include international stars Scissor Sisters, Aloe Blacc, Calvin Harris, Stereophonics, Paloma Faith, Miles Kane, The Enemy, Seasick Steve, DJ Fresh, Yasmin and Labyrinth and Ed Sheeran, as well as Irish acts such as Ryan Sheridan, Bressie, Cashier No. 9, Royseven, Ash, Keywest, The Kanyu Tree, Maverick Sabre, A Plastic Rose and The Lowly Knights – with many more acts to be announced.
To enter Play On The Day, all participants must be over 18 years of age. To enter, visitwww.hotpress.com/playontheday
If you have not already done so, IMRO invites you to submit details of all your live performances during the period 1st January to 30th June 2011.
Royalties for performances falling between these dates under the Tours & Residencies Scheme will be paid as part of payment run 11P121 in December 2011.
Online submissions must be completed by Wednesday 31st August 2011. You are encouraged to submit your live performance details and set lists online on an ongoing basis at www.imro.ie.
When making your submission, please take note of the following:
• Due to a change in PRS company policy, please provide the post code for all venues throughout the UK (including Northern Ireland) in which you performed. While IMRO makes every effort to safeguard the interests of our members, we cannot guarantee payment from PRS if we cannot adhere to their performance notification guidelines.
• IMRO requires a Representative (Average) Set List of the works you perform during a typical performance. Please include works you perform that are composed by other writers and ensure all titles written or arranged by you are registered with IMRO prior to submitting your set list. You can view your repertoire online as a registered website user.
• It is essential that you submit both gigs and a representative set list.
• Remember to register your works with IMRO prior to making your submission. You can register your works online at www.imro.ie
• We only require one submission per band. Please be sure all band members agree on the information provided.
• Royalties are generated by live performances played and paid out according to the set list submitted.
If you require further information or have any questions regarding the above please contact submissions@nullimro.ie.
IMRO has many systems in place to track and make payments on performances of your work(s). To provide you with the maximum benefit from these systems, it is essential that you provide us with information about your works and their performance (when known). To improve the efficiency of the royalty distribution process there are a number of things you can do:
1. Remember to register your new works with IMRO. You can do this online through the Members Only Area of the IMRO website www.imro.ie.
2. Inform IMRO of new music releases.
3. Notify IMRO about television performances, use of your music in advertisements and movie/theatre performances.
4. Inform IMRO on a regular basis about all live performances of your works.
5. Keep us informed of your international activities.
6. Advise IMRO of all pseudonyms which you use, and bands/groups in which you are involved.
UP File Explained
What is the UP-File?
As IMRO’s process for matching Performances to Works is a computer automated one, there are several reasons why member’s works may appear on the UP-File. These usually are:
• Work not registered at the time of matching
• Title incorrectly spelt
• Composer incorrectly spelt
• Composer not given
• Artist incorrectly given as composer
Any works that fall into this unmatched category after each distribution are placed on the UP-File.
The UP-File is a database made available to members and other societies to research and hopefully identify works belonging to them & collect any royalties due.
Online UP File
Members can access online details of broadcasts and performances that IMRO has been unable to use in royalty distributions (generally due to insufficient details from the broadcaster or the absence of a registration for the work involved). The easy-to-use interface enables Members to claim performances as theirs by linking them to musical works in their repertoire (providing, of course, that the works have already been registered correctly with IMRO!). When you submit a claim for a performance, IMRO is notified of the relevant details and will make any relevant royalty payments.
If you have yet to register for online access we would encourage you to do so now at www.imro.ie and avail of the many new benefits.
These include:
• The ability to access your current repertoire details, as registered with IMRO.
• The online Works Registration facility is a major new feature where Members can now register works directly online, eliminating the need for paper. This new service significantly enhances and streamlines the works registration process for members and the vast majority of new works registrations by members are now being made online.
• We have extensively changed the process of how you enter details of all your Live Performances, both national and international. We encourage you to supply details of these performances on a regular basis.
• Your Distribution Statements are now available interactively allowing you to see more detail regarding performances along with VAT settlement vouchers etc.
Martin Sutton has been in the music business for nearly twenty years as a songwriter, producer, session musician and mixer. He has sold over seven million records worldwide for artists including Celine Dion, The Backstreet Boys, LeAnn Rimes, Olivia Newton John, Mike & The Mechanics and pop idol winners around the world. He works in a variety of styles from R&B, Pop and Rock to Country and has written with Gary Barlow, Pixie Lott, Duncan James, Mike Rutherford and many of the world's best songwriters.
He has also worked with Andrew Lloyd Webber, Kim Wilde, Andrew Roachford, Des’ree, Heather Small, Beverley Craven, Mica Paris and has composed special commissions for film & TV.
Martin is currently signed to Universal Music Publishing and works from his home in Buckinghamshire where he has a recording studio, but also spends time writing in Nashville, Los Angeles, New York and across Europe.
Since 2010 he has become personal songwriting coach and mentor to many writers and regularly hosts masterclasses for societies such as PRS and IMRO as well as his own Songwriting Weekend Workshops.
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IMRO members looking to reserve a place at this seminar should send an email to membership@nullimro.ie
(limited availability – no admission charge)
Scholarship Announced to Celebrate First Copyright Course in Ireland
Griffith College Law School, in consultation with top industry lawyers, has developed a ‘Copyright course for recent graduates or professionals in the music and entertainment industries’. The first and only course of its kind in Ireland, this specialist course delivers an overview of areas of Copyright law including Intellectual Property law.
The course is presented by the Dean of Law at Griffith College Dublin, David Langwallner, an experienced music and art copyright expert, and is specific and relevant to the entertainment industry, not only in Ireland but also internationally.
Dean Langwallner said, “We are delighted to be launching the first ‘Copyright for Artists’ course in Ireland. This area of law is becoming more relevant every day with the increasing use of online news, broadcasting and file sharing. This course has immediate practical application and is relevant to anyone working in the music and entertainment industry.”
To celebrate the launch of the course, Griffith College has also announced the availability of a scholarship for one student deserving of a place on the course.
The Copyright Law syllabus is designed for a range of industry professionals, including aspiring or established artists, music recording companies, broadcast studios, software developers, film and TV producers, and internet service providers among others.
The next course will commence in the first week of September and runs for ten weeks. A champion of flexible learning, Griffith College has also made the course available to students wishing to study online and on a part-time basis.
For more information on how to apply for the scholarship please log on to www.gcd.ie or contact Cassandra on Ph: 01 4150421 or email cassandra.campbell@nullgcd.ie.
Music publishing can be a mindfield of complicated rights, registrations and vanishing payments. It can also be a highly rewarding source of income for composers and publishers of all sizes and musical persuasions. This upcoming panel aims to address some of the most pressing issues in today’s music publishing environment relevant to pro-active managers and self-managed artists.
Panelists include:
Chairman: Stuart Worthington – Training Officer – MMF UK
Victor Finn – IMRO, CEO
Nick Robinson – Kobalt Music Publishing
Edison Waters – Collective Management / Clients: The Shoos, Royseven, Jamie Lawson, Laura Izibor
Eileen O’Gorman – Solicitor, Gleeson McGrath Baldwin
Johnny Lappin – Foxrock Publishing / Music Publishers Association of Ireland
Steve Lindsay – Elevate Music
Among the subjects to be covered are:
Panel #1: Music Publishing Overview & Update 2011
Process and procedures: from creation to consumption
Music publisher categories, roles and functions
Collecting Societies in music publishing: Ireland and overseas
Panel #2: Deals & revenue streams
Music use in 2011: new and established value chains & revenue streams
ESAs, SSAs, catalogue, admin and sub-publishing deals
Seminar Details: (2 Day Seminar) Date: Monday 11th and Tuesday 12th July 2011 Location: IMRO, Copyright House, Pembroke Row, Dublin 2
Times:
Monday 11th July : 18:30 – 21:00
Tuesday 12th July : 18:30 – 21:00
Songwriters wishing to reserve a place at this seminar should send an email to membership@nullimro.ie to book a place. (limited availability) (no admission charge).
An element of this seminar will feature a demo listening session. A number of tracks will be selected during the course of the seminar to be critiqued by Ralph. If you would like to have a track of yours considered please bring along a copy of the song in CD format, making sure to clearly mark your name and the name of the track on the CD cover and a please include a typed or clearly written copy of the song lyrics.
Participants will also be given the opportunity to re-work their songs and present them again on the second day of the seminar.
Ralph Murphy Biography:
Canadian songwriter Ralph Murphy has achieved near-legendary status in Nashville through his career as a performer, producer, songwriter, publisher, and most recently, Vice President, International and Domestic Membership, ASCAP.
He had his first UK Number One in 1965 with ‘Call My Name’ recorded by James Royal. Other hits followed with acts like Vanity Fair and The Brotherhood of Man.
In 1969 Ralph moved to New York as Director of Production for Belwin/Mills Publishing, where he produced demos for Broadway musicals and started two successful record labels. Among the many acts he produced during that time were legendary Canadian Rockers April Wine, for whom he produced two gold albums. He had a country hit in 1972 by Jeanie C. Riley ‘Good Enough To Be Your Wife’. With Roger Cook, he formed the Picalic Group and Pic-A-Lic Music Publishing and has had more than twenty Number One records and was publisher for Song of The Year, ‘Talking In Your Sleep’ by Crystal Gayle. Pic-A-Lic became one of the most successful independent publishers in Nashville and was eventually sold to EMI.
In 2006 Ralph had success in the UK charts with ‘21st Century Christmas’ (co-written by Paul Brady), a Number Two for Cliff Richard. He is also an instructor for the respected Nashville Songwriters Association International Song Camps.
Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission and Commissioner for Digital Agenda, will open the World Copyright Summit on 7 June 2011
European Commissioner Neelie Kroes will present her vision of the new digital ecosystem in Europe and the role of creative industries in Europe’s Digital Agenda during the upcoming World Copyright Summit, organised in Brussels by CISAC on 7 and 8 June 2011.
Stressing her tremendous ambition for the European digital future, Neelie Kroes said in a viewpoint provided for the Summit that she wanted to focus her intervention at the Summit on the need for creative industries, especially music, to fully embrace the digital era. She said: “We've got an amazing asset in the [European] single market – I like to call it our crown jewel – and I want to help the music industry find every way to benefit from it.”
Kroes added that she also wanted the creative communities of Europe to fully embrace the new information and communication technologies. “It is not something that happens to the creative world – it's something you can bend and shape and improve if you want to. The Digital Agenda for Europe is your chance to join that movement. Whether in making or viewing or using art, we all have a stake in how our culture and the digital world interact,” she added (for the complete viewpoint, click here).
Another European Commissioner, Michel Barnier, in charge of Internal Market and Services, will close the Summit and give his view on collective management. Barnier works on new proposed guidelines for collective management and this keynote address will be widely anticipated by Summit delegates.
Neelie Kroes will open the World Copyright Summit on Tuesday June 7 at 8.40am.
Michel Barnier will close the World Copyright Summit on Wednesday June 8 at 5.30pm, just before the official closing by CISAC’s President Robin Gibb.
The World Copyright Summit announces the participation of world renowned creators and industry leaders for event 7 & 8 June
NEW keynote speakers recently confirmed include:
Javed Akhtar, scriptwriter, lyricist, poet and human rights activist;
Carlo d’Asaro Biondo, Vice-President, EMEA, Google;
Jean-Michel Jarre, composer, lyricist and UNESCO ambassador;
Frank Stella, painter and sculptor
With one week to go before the third edition of the World Copyright Summit on 7 & 8 June 2011 in Brussels, more than 550 participants have already confirmed their attendance to this biennial event. Creators, policy-makers and all stakeholders involved in the creation, production, licensing, distribution and dissemination of creative works will meet to exchange ideas and debate the future of intellectual property and creative content such as music, books, movies, and visual arts in the digital environment.
To check the upcoming programme, please click here.
More than100 speakers — including creators and European Union policy-makers — will share their vision and exchange views during the Summit.
As of today, 2011 Keynote Speakers confirmed include:
Michel Barnier, European Commissioner for Internal Market and Services (video message)
Carlo d'Asaro Biondo, President, Southern and Eastern Europe, EMEA, Google
Hervé Di Rosa, French visual artist and CISAC Vice-President
Jonathan Faull, European Commission Director General of DG Internal Market and Services
Robin Gibb, legendary singer and songwriter of the Bee Gees and CISAC President
Francis Gurry, WIPO Director General (World Intellectual Property Organization)
Márcia Regina Vicente Barbosa, Director of Intellectual Property Rights, representing Ana de Hollanda, Minister of Culture of Brazil
Jean-Michel Jarre, author, composer and performer
Ivo Josipović, President of Croatia and music composer
Neelie Kroes, Vice President of the European Commission and European Commissioner for Digital Agenda
Robert Levine,author of “Free Ride – How Digital Parasites are Destroying the Culture Business, and How the Culture Business Can Fight Back”
Arnaud Nourry, Hachette Livre Chairman and CEO
Jean-Paul Philippot, Administrator General, RTBF and President of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU/UER)
Frank Stella, painter and sculptor / Chair of CISAC’ International Council of Creators of Graphic, Plastic and Photographic Arts(CIAGP)
For more information about the main speakers, please, click here.
The panellists at the Summit will come from the creative, media and IT sectors and will represent such diverse companies and organisations as, among others: Access Copyright; ADAGP; ALCS; APRA/AMCOS; ARTISJUS; ASCAP; Authors Guild; BEUC; Bloomsbury Publishing; BMI; BPK Photo Agency; Childnet International; CIAM; CIADLV; Copyright Alliance; Cristina Mora Literary & Film Agency; DACS; Danish Consumer Group, Deezer; Downtown Music Publishing; Eircom; EMI Music Publishing; Europa Media Group;European Broadcasting Union; European Commission; European Composer & Songwriter Alliance; European Parliament;First Music Publishing; GEMA; Google; Hachette Livre; IFPI; IMPALA; Marc Chagall Estate; Motion Picture Association; Music Publisher Association; OCLC; Pearson; PRS for Music; RAO; SABAM; SACD; SACEM; SGAE; SGDL; SOCAN; SODRAC; Songwriter Association of Canada; Sotheby’s; Sony/ATV Music Publishing; Nokia; peermusic; STIM; TEOSTO; UNI-MEI; Universal Music Group; Warner/Chappell Music; WIPO; ZDF; and 7digital.
The 2011 World Copyright Summit is organised by CISAC and supported by numerous organisations on the partner and advisory committees, which represent every sector of the intellectual property industry.
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