By Emmanuel Legrand In the April issue of British music magazine Word, writer David Hepworth quotes the late Dick James, music publisher extraordinaire, from a 1973...
By Emmanuel Legrand Europe's policies in the copyright and creative sectors were also top of the agenda of the Creators Conference in Brussels on February 3....
By Emmanuel Legrand In Western countries, we tend to take for granted the status of creators and musicians, and the infrastructures that allow them to exercise...
By Emmanuel Legrand What can you expect when you pack a room with authors? Well, very soon they start talking about "narrative". It must come with...
By Emmanuel Legrand If songs are at the core of the music business, the way in which these songs can be identified has become a crucial...
By Emmanuel Legrand Time may be of the essence, but European institutions work within a different time frame than the rest of the world. That was...
It's the same old song: each year the music industry flies to the South of France to attend Midem, the international music market, conference and festival....
It's the same old song: each year the music industry flies to the South of France to attend Midem, the international music market, conference and festival....
By Emmanuel Legrand In this second part, I outline some of the findings of the report 'Music Crossing Borders: Monitoring the cross-border circulation of European music...
By Emmanuel Legrand It's never been easy for European artists to find their own market in Europe, and it is certainly not getting any easier. That's...