The 7th annual BPI/UKTI Trade mission to Japan is happening this week and below is a daily blog from delegate Brett Leboff, whose company Monumental Music Group is looking for licensing deals and touring opportunities in Japan.   Brett Leboff Monumental Music Group       Today I didn'... [More]

The 7th annual BPI/UKTI Trade mission to Japan is happening this week and below is a daily blog from delegate Brett Leboff, whose company Monumental Music Group is looking for licensing deals and touring opportunities in Japan.     Brett Leboff Monumental Music Group   So after gett... [More]

The 7th annual BPI/UKTI Trade mission to Japan is happening this week and below is a daily blog from delegate Brett Leboff, whose company Monumental Music Group is looking for licensing deals and touring opportunities in Japan. Brett Leboff Monumental Music Group       Having gone to bed... [More]

The 7th annual BPI/UKTI Trade mission to Japan is happening this week and below is a daily blog from delegate Brett Leboff, whose company Monumental Music Group is looking for licensing deals and touring opportunities in Japan.     Brett Leboff Monumental Music Group   Hi Guys, Here i... [More]

    The below is reproduced with kind permission of Record of the Day magazine (15/07/10) The BPI Annual Conference for Members took place last week ahead of the BPI AGM and organised by Julian Wall, BPI Director of Independent Member Services featured 2 separate panels looking at Social Netw... [More]

Unfortunately my hopes of being able to write this blog from sunny California on the eve of the BPI Sync Licensing Trade Mission to Los Angeles have been foiled by a volcano with an unpronounceable name in the Nordic wastes of Iceland and the consequent grounding of flights across Europe. This past ... [More]

The BPI Sync Licensing mission is now just about a week away, although it probably seems like those concerned have been working on nothing else for months now………   The programme is obviously at this late stage more or less finalised, although there are still a few niggling loose ends which will ... [More]

The deadline for registrations to the 2010 BPI Sync Licensing mission passed last week, and I’m pleased to say despite the testing commercial times we live in (or maybe precisely because of?), we have had a record number of applications and are taking over 40 companies to the City of Angels this coming April. The delegate list contains a large number of ‘first-timers’, plus some returnees. Hopefully, whatever category our delegates fit into, all will find it a useful and hopefully profitable experience. [More]

Last Thursday, the first BPI Independent/International committee meeting of 2010 took place at the BPI office in Westminster. These are normally held once a month (although January is often missed because of MIDEM), and they are generally open to any BPI independent member who wishes to attend. Cons... [More]

My MIDEM this year didn’t start until Sunday evening, as other commitments made an earlier arrival not possible. However, Easyjet Flight # 3103 from Stansted duly deposited me at Nice airport mid afternoon and - courtesy of the Nice/Cannes express bus - I had my delegate registration ID round my neck, and was on the British Music @ MIDEM stand within a couple of hours. Although the ‘exhibition day’ was nearly over, there was still plenty of activity and bustling evidence of the increased number of UK delegates that we had at this year’s MIDEM. [More]