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New music writers group for Europe.
A new music writers network is set to provide a voice for writers across the continent
by Robert Ashton
Songwriters and composers throughout Europe are poised to secure a strong voice of their own in Brussels with the launch of the first continent-wide songwriters and composers group.
European Music Writers Network (EMWN) is due to be launched in Madrid in February 2007 and is designed to become the lead lobbying group for all types of music writers - from classical to pop - across Europe.
It will also act as the umbrella group for three recently-formed composer organisations, the Federation of Film and Audiovisual Composers in Europe (FFACE), the Austrian-based European Composers Federation (ECF) and newly-launched Alliance of Popular Composer Organisations in Europe (APCOE), based in the UK and currently chaired by British Academy of Composers and Songwriters chairman David Ferguson.
He says, "In the same way the Academy needs to lobby on behalf of writers in the UK, there is a need for music writers to have a voice at the European level. Collection societies aren't in a position to do it for us."
EMWN's mandate is expected to be discussed at the Madrid meeting and also the establishment of its staffing policy, possibly naming the administrators and lobbyists who will run it. It is proposed that it will establish a nine-member board with three delegates from the member organisations. Ferguson draws an analogy with the European Writers' Congress, a federation of 55 writer organisations, which represents 54,000 authors and novelists in 29 countries.
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