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An audience at London's The Ivy restaurant with Conservative leader Michael Howard has kicked off the music industry's autumn campaign for political influence.
The reception last Wednesday, organised by Big Brovaz and Jamelia manager Jonathan Shalit, came ahead of EMI's fringe meeting at the Labour Party conference in Brighton tomorrow (Tuesday), where chairman Eric Nicoli is expected to stress the importance of copyright and of the music industry's 5bn [pounds sterling] contribution to the British economy.
Also speaking at the Fringe event, which is intended to convey the diversity and social conscience of the industry, are David Miliband MP, Live Music Forum chairman Feargal Sharkey, Beggars Group chairman Martin Mills, Al Tickell of Community Music and Helen Patey of Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy.
Sharkey stresses the importance of promoting the industry's message tirelessly to Government, citing as a success story Secretary of State for Trade and Industry Patricia Hewitt's speech to Citigroup this summer on the value of intellectual property.
"I think the industry is well aware it has ...