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Jazz for the World
Background information, news and the most important faces of the German music business: In the latest issue of virtuos the GEMA once again sets the standard to inform its members in a very special kind of way. In the cover story virtuos shows its readers how important German Jazz musicians are worldwide. For example: Rainer Tempel who is on the cover. In addition, virtuos shows how to win over one of the world’s most famous composers of film scores – Hans Zimmer – for a project and what to expect of the “Deutscher Musikautorenpreis” which will be held on April 22 in Berlin for the second time. Furthermore, virtuos as usual has the latest news on copyright protection, in-house changes and recent trends within the business.
virtuos also addresses politics: Hans-Joachim Otto, member of the German Bundestag and Parliamentary State Secretary admits in an interview to the strengthening of intellectual property. Furthermore virtuos as usual informs about any alterations in copyright. This time it presents the agreement between computer manufacturers and the collecting companies for PCs. Thus the collecting company for musical performing and mechanical reproduction rights, supported by heller & partner, once again offers its 60,000 members exciting topics and a modern layout. In short: virtuos reports up-to-date an critical about politically and socially important topics.
Recent topics, opinion forming articles, news around the rights and obligations of members, industry whispers" - the current issue of virtuos offers the readers plenty of reading matter.
- Unprofitable art: Ho can composers and songwriters live on their art? And who helps them?
- On the prowl for tones: Olivier Messiaen created music out of birds’ noise.
- Going online: How music creators can use social networks in web 2.0 for their career
- Two farewells: virtuos appreciates the producer Egon L. Frauenberger as well as the composer and songwriter Hans Hee with two very personal tributes.
