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CISCAC launches creator forum
By Chris Cooke | Published on Thursday 6 June 2013
The global organisation that brings together the world’s song rights collecting societies plus creators from various artistic disciplines, CISAC, has launched a new forum for individual intellectual property creators to be called LINK. The new initiative has been launched at CISAC’s World Creators Summit in Washington.
LINK aims to enable better communication and understanding within the creative community, and between creators and their collecting organisations, and political decision makers around the world. The forum is expected to consider the ways different rights bodies interact, how to balance IP and free speech rights, and changes in intellectual property laws, especially in countries that have traditionally had weak IP regimes.
The likes of Jean Michel Jarre, Ang√©lique Kidjo, Javed Akhtar, Rupert Hine, Bendik Hofseth, Ousmane Sow, Werner Stauffacher, Simon Darlow and Penny Grubb took part in a first LINK meeting this week. Jarre told reporters: “With the positive power of the artists’ voices united, LINK aspires to find common areas of interest and create a supportive community not only across artistic disciplines but also around the globe, and raise our voices together, within our national collective organizations and our national governments”.