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IMPALA is ten
By CMU Editorial | Published on Thursday 16 September 2010
While I was in Cardiff at the weekend helping celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Welsh Music Foundation, in Berlin they were celebrating the first decade of pan-European indie label trade body IMPALA. The celebrations followed the trade body’s AGM and a week of discussions and panels in the German capital.
Rounding up the week, IMPALA boss Helen Smith told CMU: “The week has been a great opportunity to look at what we have learned over ten years and focus on how to get a better deal moving forward – for collective licensing, for online music services, for mechanical licensing, for talent development and for anti-piracy settlements such as Kazaa”.
At the AGM it was agreed the trade body should, moving forward, remain focused on levelling the playing field for smaller music companies, and reverse market share trends so that indies start to account for an ever increasing amount of the music business over the four majors.
