BERLIN: Trust Robin Gibb to shoot straight from the hip. Speaking at the opening ceremony of Popkomm 2008, the fromer BeeGees lead singer writer said he had no idea about IPR when he used to produce music. "My brothers and I never thought of money and IPR and rights when we wrote and created music. We did it because we loved it."
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BERLIN: "Even if the music business is not doing well on a national scale in Germany, the country's capital - Berlin is doing very well thank you," the mayor of Berlin Harald Wolf said at the opening ceremony of Popkomm.
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MUMBAI: Dandiya event organisers in Mumbai, including the Falguni Pathak starrer Sankalp and a few others who have been abstaining from paying music licence fee have given in for the licensing bodies' demand of paying royalties Most of the organisers have bought the licenses from Yashraj, Big Music and labels under the Indian Music Industry (IMI) wing.
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BERLIN – Visionaries, analysts, managers, artists, critics, lawyers, researchers, journalists have converged here for the Popkomm music festival, the international forum for the music and entertainment industries, that begins on Wednesday.
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