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The Featured Artist Coalition has added seven other big names to its heavy-hitting board of directors as it continues to push its agenda on everything from copyright term to file-sharing.
Annie Lennox, Travis frontman Fran Healy and Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason are among the new faces at FAC, which is also developing four new committees to help it formulate and action policy.
At the end of March the nascent artists group held its first board meeting to elect its initial board and also commit to key policy areas.
At the time, Radiohead's Ed O'Brien, Kate Nash, Billy Bragg, Howard Jones, Marillion's Mark Kelly, The Young Punx's Hal Ritson and Dave Rowntree were confirmed as board members with the Blur drummer taking on the chairman's role.
Now those seven are joined by Lennox, Healy, Mason, Sandie Shaw, The Futureheads' Ross Millard, The Fire Escapes' Lucy Pullin and Master Shortie.
Membership and development director Matthew Brown adds that four committees are also being put together: they cover membership; training and education; commercial; and political, with Bragg and Shaw likely slated ...