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Three government initiatives were unveiled at Midem designed to improve the competitiveness of the UK music industry.
As part of an overall drive to boost the creative services, the DCMS is to host a music industry summit in late spring at which all sectors of the industry will be asked to participate, so that the Government can learn in greater detail in which areas it can help. Later in the year, it also plans to stage an IP summit.
But, first, it will look at conducting an investigation to measure the revenue generated by the live music industry, beyond ticket sales, as recommended by the Live Music Forum.
The announcements were made by Hugh Irranca-Davies MP, who is permanent private secretary to culture secretary Tessa Jowell and who was standing in for music minister James Purnell, who had to cancel his trip to Cannes at the last minute on personal grounds.
"You can argue that government has no place in the creative industries, ...