Brian Butterworth said:
> £45 million a year is spent on BBC Radio 3. It seems a poor use of
> this spending to not allow the classical music to be podcasted, I was shocked
> when the Trust showed a certain myopia on this front. It's not like any of
> this music has copyright issues, for a start.
> I suspect someone on the BBC Trust board is a member of the Musician's
> Union. You know the people - they campaign under the banner "recordings are
> killing live music", which is demonstrably untrue.
It looks like the Trust has been influenced by lobbying from the UK classical
music publishing industry:
http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/industry_sectors/media/article1082971.ece
"Anthony Anderson, managing director of Naxos UK, one of the biggest publishers
of classical-music CDs, complained: "By offering downloads for nothing, the BBC
was distorting the marketplace. Is this what a public-sector broadcaster,
largely funded by the licence fee, should be doing?" [Zarin] Patel [of the BBC]
said the Beethoven downloads were an experiment and the BBC was "surprised" by
the level of the response. It would "think very hard" before doing the same
thing again. "We would probably do it in partnership with the classical-music
publishing industry," she said."
which at least shows that if you're concerned about the direction the BBC is
heading, then lobbying the Trust can be an effective way of getting the BBC to
head in a different one.
K.
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