"Preface" [2002] ELECD 44; in Towse, Ruth (ed), "Copyright in the Cultural Industries" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002)

Book Title: Copyright in the Cultural Industries

Editor(s): Towse, Ruth

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781840646610

Section Title: Preface

Number of pages: 1

Extract:

Preface
Ruth Towse

This book derives from the international conference `Copyright in the Cultural
Industries' held in September 2000 at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the
Netherlands, organized by Ruth Towse from the Department for the Study of
the Arts and Culture (KCW) and Roger van den Bergh, Professor of Law and
Economics in the Faculty of Law, Erasmus University Rotterdam, in
conjunction with the Association for Cultural Economics International
(ACEI). Professor David Throsby from the Department of Economics,
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia assisted with the initial selection of
papers. Financial assistance was provided by the ACEI, the Erasmus Research
Centre for the Arts and Culture at KCW (ECKCW) and the Faculty of Law of
Erasmus University Rotterdam. This project was also supported by the
Foundation Vereiniging Trustfonds Erasmus Universeit Rotterdam in the
Netherlands.
Many people were involved in making the conference a success: the
conference administrator Theresa Oostvogels and her assistant, Miro de
Ruiter; the session chairmen, Roger van den Bergh, Rudi Holzhauer, Hector
MacQueen, Michael Rushton and Paul Rutten. Jules Theeuwes was chairman
of the panel discussion on the problems of administering copyright in the
digital era; members of the panel were Gerri Hevel (SENA, the Dutch
Neighbouring Rights Society), Darrell Panethiere (Warner Music, UK), Shinji
Matsumoto (GEIDANKYO, which administers performers' rights in Japan)
and Michael Einhorn (formerly of BMI in the USA), these latter two
participants have also contributed chapters to this book. We are very grateful
to all the people and organizations involved.
All the authors have revised ...