Nokia Music Connects 2011- Driving the shift

Nokia Music Connects 3 has left no stone unturned to provide the Indian music Industry and its allied sectors a common platform to discuss major issues and challenges faced in the music business. The annual conference will take place on 16 – 17 November 2011 at a spanking brand new venue, The ITC Grand Central, Parel, Mumbai.

Nokia Music Connects, is a joint venture conceptualized by Hong Kong based Branded (which runs Music and Digital Matters) and leading Indian media portal Indiantelevision.com’s Radioandmusic.com.

With more than 75 proficient Indian and International music panelists and speakers, the two day long music conference “Nokia Music Connects – the Indian music forum 2011 in association with Artistaloud.com” will throw light on the major changes that have evolved in the Indian music industry. Speakers at the panel will share their expertise on the music in bollywood films to Indian pop, religious, regional pop, classical music, the digital value chain, live music scene and the future of independent artistes. The event will also witness unique live performance by Grammy award winner Imogem Heap.

Other important panel discussions will include debate on the legal and copyright side of the music business. Key industry executives will discuss on the new music tools like the internet mobile radio and streaming services, followed by discussions on music TV reality shows , the live scene and the core of music-the artiste management. The various panelist include regulatory heads, music label honchos, advertising gurus, corporate heads as well as top notch creative professionals from the music industry, from both India and abroad. Those participating in the conference will be key players from all these sectors, making the event as much of an exciting networking platform as a forum where vital issues facing the industry will be discussed and a path to the future will be forged.

The venture is supported by the umbrella organization of the music industry, the Indian Music Industry (IMI) in partnership with MMX, PPL and IPRS in association with Hungama.com and Artistaloud.com, Industry partner Saavn.com, Session partners Sony Mix and British Council, Lanyard partner BMI, Endorsed & Supported by SIMCA, Official Festival partner Only Much Louder, Opening Party partner Shiro, Supporting partners Branded, Indiantelevision.com, Canadian Music week, Music2Deal, MediaNama, Casbaa, and Media partners – Afaqs, IMT, IHT, Campaign India and PR partner CMCG, Co-Produced by Music Matters and Radioandmusic.com

www.musicconnectsindia.com

1. Achille Forler (Managing Director, Deep Emotions)

2. Adarsh Gupta (Head – Music Business, Saregama India Ltd.)

3. Aditya Swamy (Senior Vice-President, MTV)

4. Hardeep Singh Anand (Lawyer)

5. Anil Wanvari (Founder CEO, Indiantelevision.com Group)

6. Anthony Zameczkowski (Head of YouTube Partnerships, Google Hong Kong Ltd.)

7. Apurv Nagpal (Managing Director & CEO, Saregama)

8. Arvind Krishnan (Director – Marketing, Bacardi)

9. Atul Churamani (Content Head, OnMobile)

10. Ben Thomas (Managing Director, Kurian & Co.)

11. Bharath Subramaniam (Director, Xone)

12. Brandon Bakshi (Executive Director – Europe & Asia, BMI)

13. Devraj Sanyal (Managing Director, Universal Music Group)

14. Farhad Wadia (CEO, E18)

15. Imogen Heap (Grammy Award Winning Artist)

16. Jasmeet Gandhi (Head – Devices OPM & Services Marketing, Nokia India)

17. John McLellan (Partner, Haldanes)

18. Jon Slade (Founder, Elastic Artists Agency)

19. Jordan Berliant (Linkin Park’s Manager)

20. Jyrki Rosenberg (Vice President, Entertainment & MeeGo, Nokia)

21. Kapil Raizada (Director – Applications & Voice Products, OnMobile)

22. Mandar Thakur (COO, Times Music)

23. Mark Wood (Imogen Heap’s Manager)

24. Martin Elbourne (Glastonbury Festival)

25. Mukesh Bhatt (Chairman & Managing Director, Vishesh Films)

26. Myles Keller (Membership Development Director, PRS for Music)

27. Natasha Haddad (Programmer, The Great Escape/ Mean Fiddler)

28. Neeraj Roy (Managing Director & CEO, Hungama Digital Media Entertainment Pvt. Ltd.)

29. Neeraj Vyas (Executive Vice President & Business Head, SONY MAX & SONY MIX)

30. Owen Roncon (Partner, Oranjuice Entertainment)

31. Pakul Chaturvedi (Chief – Asia Pacific, Promo Sapiens)

32. Param Singh (Co-Founder, Saavn.com)

33. Peter Jenner (Discoverer of Pink Floyd, subsequent Manager of many, Advisor to WIPO)

34. Pradeep Anand (Managing Director, MeraGana.com)

35. Prashant Bahadur (Vice President & General Manager, The Orchard)

36. Prashant Dogra (Vice President – VAS, Bharti Airtel Ltd.)

37. Prasoon Joshi (Lyricist, Screenwriter, Copywriter)*

38. Rajesh Dhupad (Jt. Secretary Simca)

39. Raju Singh (Music Composer)

40. Ralph Simon (CEO, Mobilium International)

41. Rob Lewis (Executive Chairman, Omnifone)

42. Robert Horsfall (Head, Sound Advice Legal, LLP)

43. Ruth Daniel (Founder, Un-Convention)

44. Ruuben van den Heuvel (Independent Consultant – Digital, Media, Music,

45. Sabbas Joseph (Founder Director, Wizcraft)

46. Sameer Nigam (CEO, Mime360)*

47. Shehzad Azad (Head – Business Development & Alliances Spice Digital)

48. Siddhartha Roy (COO – Consumer Business & Allied Services, Hungama Digital Media

49. Sita Raina (CEO, The Peninsula Studios)

50. Soumini Sridhara Paul (Associate Vice President, Artist Aloud)

51. Stephen Budd (Managing Director, Stephen Budd Music Ltd. & Founder/ Council Member, Music Manager’s Forum)

52. Sulaiman Merchant (Music Composer)

53. T. Suresh (Managing Director, EMI Music India)

54. Ted Cohen (Managing Partner, TAG Strategic)

55. Tom Baker ( Founder, Eat Your Own Ears)

56. Vijay Lazarus (President, IMI / PPL)

57. Vipul Pradhan (CEO – Licensing Division, PPL)

58. Viral Oza (Director – Marketing, Nokia India)

59. Vivek Paul (Director – Digital, Sony Music)

November 11, 2011 – The Copyright Protection Centre of China has reported it has deleted more than 400,000 unauthorised Internet audio and video links since June 2010.

As part of the country’s efforts to crack down on rampant copyright infringements, the centre launched services for both domestic and overseas copyright owners last summer. Since then, it has detected more than 410,000 links of copied video and audio materials and deleted 97 per cent of them.

To read the full article, please visit: http://www.advanced-television.com/index.php/2011/11/10/china-deletes-400000-piracy-links/

November 7, 2011 – DISH Network Corp. Chairman Charlie Ergen said Nov. 7 that the popularity of over-the-top video is hurting the premium channels business of pay TV operators, and he expects the trend to continue.

“When someone can buy Netflix [Inc.] for $7.99, do they really want to pay $14.99 for HBO?” he said to analysts during an earnings conference call.

To read the entire article, please visit http://www2.snl.com/Interactivex/article.aspx?CdId=A-13604397-11059

AVG to start up pay TV network next week

VNEconomyNews.com – A new pay television network called An Vien, invested by Audio Visual Global Co. (AVG), will be officially put into operation on November 11 after one year of test-airing.

An Vien TV network will supply TV programs using digital terrestrial television (DTT) and direct to home (DTH) technologies with three low-fee packages. Apart from channels of Vietnam Television and international channels, AVG will broadcast channels of other television stations.

With this TV network, AVG will become the second private media firm to operate in Vietnam’s pay TV industry after K Plus, a joint venture between Vietnam Television and France’s Canal Plus.

To view the complete article, please visit http://www.vneconomynews.com/2011/11/avg-to-start-up-pay-tv-network-next.html

(October 6, 2011) – IFPI CEO Frances Moore has said that a growing understanding of the issues surrounding music piracy in Government across the world has led to increased support in the organisations battle against illegal downloading.

Speaking to Fiscal Police National Academy in Italy on Monday, Moore said that piracy has had a devastating impact on sales of music noting that out of every 20 music tracks downloaded online, only one is done so legitimately and adding that studies carried out by Tera Consultancy, found that up to 1.2 million jobs could be lost across Europe if nothing was done to combat it.

To read the full article, please visit http://www.musicweek.com/story.asp?sectioncode=1&storycode=1046899

(October 4, 2011) – Football fans should be allowed to legally buy and use set-top smartcards from foreign broadcasters, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) has ruled, paving the way for individuals to watch Premier League football matches at a much cheaper rate than domestic pay TV operators charge.

The ruling is a victory for UK pub landlady Karen Murphy, who was fined £8,000 (€9,343) for providing her customers with Premier League football coverage using decoders from Greek broadcaster Nova. She took her case to Europe’s highest court, which this morning ruled that the freedom to provide services within the EU supersedes any national laws prohibiting the sale or use of foreign smartcards.

To read the full article, please visit http://www.digitaltveurope.net/15801/eu-premier-league-viewing-allowed-on-foreign-set-tops/

Govt likely to amend rules to digitize TV broadcast
This is expected to improve subscription revenue for broadcasters beaming to 116 million homes and end the hefty carriage fee they pay cable TV operators, who are opposed to the move

New Delhi/Mumbai: The Indian government is likely to amend rules in the next few days to completely digitize the broadcast of the country’s Rs. 20,000 crore cable and satellite television industry by 2014.

This is expected to improve subscription revenue for broadcasters beaming to 116 million homes and end the hefty carriage fee they pay cable TV operators, who are opposed to the move.

To read the complete article, please visit http://www.livemint.com/2011/09/26000509/Govt-likely-to-amend-rules-to.html

Pay-TV Competition Becomes Fiercer

JAKARTA: Competition in the pay-TV segment is predicted to intensify amidst a remaining market potential of up to 15 million households and the arrival of IPTV in Indonesia.

Skynindo Director of Business Development, Widodo Mardijono, said that the pay-TV market which currently has been penetrated is approximately 3.3 million households, with more than 12 million other households still untapped.

“Satellite television still dominates the market due to its extensive coverage and relatively lower price,” he shared with Bisnis yesterday.

According to him, the market presence of IPTV (Internet television), LTE (long-term evolution) and WiMax which provide television streaming services is still very much in its infancy, as the telecommunication network in Indonesia is not fully IP-based.

This factor, explained Widodo, will influence its degree of penetration and limit it to the larger cities.

Skynindo is a pay-TV operator with access to 2 C-band transponders (72 MHz) on satellite Palapa D, which is owned by Indosat and obtained its operational permit last mid-year.

Widodo estimates that each month will usher in approx.1,000 customers, be they completely new subscribers or acquired from other operators, and does not discount the possibility of attracting customers from neighbouring countries through collaboration with distributors.

“Our new marketing program will include the Skynindo box which is equipped with 30 free-to-air programs, and the opening of all 85 channels for free during weekends or national holidays to our subscribers,” he said.

According to him, there are approximately 4 million households in the whole of Indonesia that own satellite dishes, which proved that media entertainment in the form of television is very much in demand, especially in certain districts which cannot capture television broadcasts.

Besides Skynindo, other satellite pay-TV operators include Aora TV, Indovision, and Telkomvision.

In a separate interview, Aora TV Director of Marketing and Sales Guntur S. Siboro revealed that his side is not too worried about competition because the untapped market is still large.

“We do not have to fight for customers. With television owner numbers potentially at more than 40 milllion households, and the current tapped market at only 2.5%, we are optimistic of creating new market share,” he said.

Currently, Aora TV’s subscribers number about 100,000. Guntur is optimistic that Aora can continue to add new customers in all districts.

Unlike the already highly-saturated telecommunications, the pay-TV market, he added, is far from being saturated, even in Jakarta alone.

Conversely, Indosat M2 rates the growth of the Indonesian pay-TV market as almost stagnant due to competition in the form of increasingly interesting terrestrial TV content.

“The local and free to air TV content has become rather impressive, thus creating little incentive for consumers to subscribe to satellite or cable TV,” opined Indosat M2 GM of Business Development Hermanudin.

He said this could be seen from the total number of pay-TV subscribers in Indonesia which have been at levels of 1 million, although pay-TV has been present in Indonesia since the late 90’s.

According to Elvizar KH, President Director of PT Indonesia Telemedia, a subsidiary of Telkom which provides pay-TV services, the total number of Indonesian pay-TV consumers is only approx. 1 million.

“Compare this to Vietnam which has a much smaller population, but has achieved subscription numbers of about 2 million,” he said.

Elvizar feels that there are several factors which reduce the attractiveness of pay-TV in Indonesia, including cheaper tariffs and relatively weak support from local content providers. (FAA)

To read the original Bahasa Indonesia article, please visit http://www.bisnis.com/articles/wuiiiih-persaingan-televisi-berbayar-makin-sengit

ISPs HOLD THE KEY TO REDUCING ONLINE MOVIE AND TV THEFT BY 72%
NEW ADVERTISING CAMPAIGN PROPOSES ‘THERE’S NO EXCUSE FOR MOVIE AND TV THEFT’

SYDNEY 12 SEPTEMBER 2011: Research released today reveals 72% of consumers say they would stop illegal downloading activities if they received an educational notice from their ISP (internet service provider). The study also revealed that consumers perceive the ISPs as actively encouraging them to share and download illegal content.

The independent research was conducted by Sycamore Research & Marketing and was commissioned by the Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation (IPAF), a broad partnership of television and movie organizations in Australia. The national survey asked respondents, aged between 18 and 64, about their attitudes and everyday activities in relation to television and movie theft.

Gail Grant, CEO of IPAF said, “72% of people surveyed told us they would stop illegal file-sharing activity if they received a notice from their ISP. This would have a dramatic effect on illegal online activity for two reasons: Firstly, our findings suggest that some people genuinely don’t know or are confused about what they are doing. Secondly, a proportion of people suspect that what they’re doing is wrong, but give themselves get out clauses, justifications and excuses for their activity. When the facts are pointed out clearly, our research tells us that most people will stop.”

“Education campaigns for social issues regularly prove to be successful. In 2010 IPAF launched the ‘Accidental Pirate’ campaign that focused on defining piracy and educating the public on the actions that constitute Movie and TV theft at the everyday and every person level. The recent research found that 44% of people who saw that campaign said it changed their view of the issue.”

“Clearly the solution to a better understanding of the issue will be further education. ISPs can educate consumers by providing educational and informative notices regarding what’s acceptable online. In addition, IPAF will educate people through a new advertising campaign that will launch in September, 2011. Our new campaign will assist those hiding behind excuses to understand that what they’re doing isn’t okay – it’s actually movie and TV theft. “

IPAF have created a new national cinema and television campaign featuring the popular caricatures from the ‘Accidental Pirate’ campaign. Using the same unique humour, this year’s message will aim to dispel the excuses used by those who continue to participate in Movie and TV theft. The campaign will challenge people to see the truth behind the excuse.

Tony Singleton, MD of Arnold Furnace, the advertising agency who created the ‘Accidental Pirate’ and the ‘Excuses’ campaign said, “The research shows that our new humorous approach was not only appreciated by consumers, it was effective at delivering our message and getting them on our side. For the new creative we have built on the successful theme of the original campaign but have further developed the strategy. We’re now targeting the excuses that people tell themselves – the ones that allow them to keep doing something that in their heart of hearts they really know is actually theft. The new message is – “Whoever you are, there is no excuse for Movie and TV Theft.”

Gail Grant added, “When it comes to Movie and TV theft some act as if the product is simply there for the taking. In no other commercial sphere do we allow or make excuses for theft. This new campaign will aim to educate the public and raise further awareness about the value of respecting and protecting the people and businesses in Australia dependent on the movie and TV industry for their livelihoods.”

Adam Blaiklock, who directed the campaign and whose feature film ‘Caught Inside’ will be released this year, said, “When someone chooses to enjoy a film or a television show by going to the cinema, watching TV, or going to an online source that is the real deal, it’s a great outcome for everyone: your patronage allows more investment to go into making great new shows and our film and TV community gets paid for their hard work.”

Emma Moroney, Supervising Producer, Movie Channel Network, said, “Australians who love their films, DVDs and television shows play a vital role in stimulating the creation and broadcast of great entertainment. A strategy which uses education to inform more people to choose their movies and programs via legitimate channels will be a welcome and important factor in encouraging continued investment in new and innovative programming which sustains our creative community.”

To find out more about the Intellectual Property Awareness Foundation, the Sycamore survey or the “excuses” campaign go to www.ipawareness.com.au.

ABOUT THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY AWARENESS FOUNDATION (IPAF)

IPAF promotes screen copyright. 50,000 Australians depend on the film and TV industry for their livelihoods, including those in production, distribution, exhibition, DVD rental & retail, marketing, operations, office trades and a mul titude of service providers and suppliers.

www.ipawareness.com.au

CONTACT:

Stephen Jenner, Director of PR, IPAF
0409 776196
sjenner@ipawareness.com.au 

Belinda West
0404 037 168 
belinda@bellecommunications.com.au