CNM Newsmakers
Media | 03/14/2005 5:00 am EST
The following is an excerpt from the March 3 keynote address by Graham Henderson, president, Canadian Recording Industry Association at Canadian Music Week. In the address, Henderson expresses optimism for the future of the music industry in a digital environment, but calls on Ottawa to ratify the World Intellectual Property Organization’s Internet treaties and for it to follow through on its own copyright reform process. …Like many of you, I have sat through countless keynotes at successive Canadian Music Weeks at which pundits and futurists, self-proclaimed prophets of our doom, propounded their idiosyncratic visions of the future. Many of these people had absolutely no familiarity with our business; some of them were, of all things, law professors fresh from the tenured, sheltered corridors of academe. But what they all had in common was this. They were, for the most part, wrong. …There is considerable evidence that some of the illusions about the “e” world are wearing off and that the old rules are re-asserting
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