GEMA

News from the East

Also the latest issue of virtuos, the members’ magazine of the GEMA, offers an exciting mix of current industry buzz, practice tips and exceptional insider views into the world of music: 20 years after the wall came down we write about New Music in Eastern Germany (composer Helmut Zapf is on the cover), 40 years after the death of composer Bruno Droste virtuos helps his widow to find long lost scores and in a big special we report on music kindergartens and school projects which nurture children holistically. Thus the collecting society for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights offers its 60,000 members exciting topics and a state-of-the-art layout with the support of heller & partner: virtuos reports up-to-date and critically on political and social issues.

Topics with regard to current issues, opinion-forming articles, news about the rights and obligations of members, ‘industry buzz’ - the current edition of virtuos offers its readers a lot of reading material:

• Platform internet: After the discussion about the public petition in the internet portal of the German Bundestag the GEMA now presents the latest results of an analyses of the discussion’s most important topics
• Curse of the pirates: How the German Federal Ministry of Economics and the Directorate-General EC domestic market fight against internet piracy
• Open ears and senses: music kindergartens and school projects nurture our (musical) offspring holistically
• Captain Melody: virtuos congratulates the long-time GEMA chairman Prof. Christian Bruhn on his 75th birthday