Fran Nevrkla - you know, Fran, top man at UK recording royalties place PPL - has just joined the board of a new US organisation called the Copyright Alliance, which is not-for-profit, non-partisan educational organisation consisting of representatives from all sorts of bodies and societies that represent copyright owners, and which is designed to promote the importance of copyright in achieving creative development, more jobs, economic growth, world peace and the perfect hair cut. Well, some of those things. He's the first European appointment within the new body.
Here's what he says about the appointment: "All politicians, law makers and business leaders are fully aware of the enormous global significance of transatlantic trade. A similar degree of awareness is developing in terms of the importance of intellectual property rights in the 21st Century global economy. I am thrilled for PPL to have been invited at this early stage to join the recently formed US Copyright Alliance and I am similarly delighted in a personal sense to have the privilege of serving on its main board".