p2pnet.net News:- Fancy an evening out with the BPI? Then this’ll interest you. It’s a message for aspiring musicians and it says:

You want audience adoration, respect from your peers and the music industry and the chance to keep your name and music in the public psyche for years to come. However, success in the music industry comes from a series of partnerships between musicians and industry. Such partnerships most likely involve a musician exchanging their intellectual property rights for the expertise that enables them to distribute and sell their music whether on or off line.

Whoa! Are you reading that right!?!? You are.

Translated, it means if you want to get anywhere in the Corporate Music Biz, you’ll need to sign over your first-born, second-born, third-born, and so on, creations to Warner Music, EMI, Vivendi Universal and Sony BMG, the members of the Big 4 Organized Music cartel.

There’s no mention of droit de seigneur. But you get the general idea.

The ‘advice’ comes in an Own It [them, not you] / BPI (British Phonographic Industry) pumping up a forthcoming seminar. Note the lock in the top left corner of the logo.

The BPI is owned by the Big 4 and is one of many so-called ‘trade’ organizations such as the RIAA, IFPI, etc, created to exploit both musicians and music lovers to the hilt.

“Dealing with intellectual property rights isn’t always straightforward, and a musician needs expert support and information to sign deals with managers, publishers, labels, lawyers, accountants, aggregators, distributors and more during their career,” says the Own It item.

Given that lawsuits are the preferred mode of contact, it’s appropriate that one of the presenters is a lawyer who specialises in, “music litigation where he acts for one of the main UK collecting societies, as well as being involved in all types of litigation in the music industry”. Kewl.

He also acts for three collecting societies, as well as, “large and small record companies including Sony/BMG”.

Sony BMG? Name rings a bell. Something to do with hiding flawed DRM spyware on music CDs, opening buyers’ PCs to attack by hackers and e-vermin?

Anyway, “The seminar aims to be particularly useful for musicians at the beginning of their careers keen to develop a greater understanding of their intellectual property rights in order to make better-informed professional decisions.”

If you haven’t anything more pressing to do on January 30, you might want to head over to the BPI’s lair at Riverside Building, County Hall, Westminster Bridge Road, London, SE1 7JA. The fun starts at 6:00 pm.

(Thanks, Andrew, and thanks also for the donation.)

[Editor’s Note - On our story pic in the upper right, “These images are available for press use in connection with Own It,” says the site here, featuring a set of Lara Croft pix, “Copyright 2004 Core Design Limited Courtesy of Eidos plc”. So …..]

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