Friends:

Happy New Year.

The Future of Music Coalition shares the contemplative spirit of this holiday season and hopes that this period of reflection will inspire 2002 to be year of regrouping, education and collaboration between the legal, artistic, academic, technical, and business communities.

As for a recap of last years highlights, even in the midst of economic downturn and strife within the artistic, technology and business communities, FMC managed several significant achievements for an organization that was under-funded and barely a year old.

So much has happened in the past month that this newsletter seems a bit inconsequential. FMC hopes that you and yours are safe in the aftermath of the events on September 11th. In the face of the continuing uncertainty that has always been the climate of the human condition we embrace the future and recommit ourselves to the task of trying to effect changes that might improve the lives of citizens and musicians.

Hello

Summer’s here and the time is right… for consolidating the major music/tech companies (Mp3.com, Myplay, and Emusic) securely in the hands of the same corporations they used to compete with.

Here at FMC we can’t help but wonder how this benefits musicians or consumers? But first, let’s get down to business.

Hello

Things here at the FMC are really spinning. The Future of Music Policy Summit Conference was a massive success, we’ve swept up the confetti, and now our real work begins. But first, we must announce that the summit lives on with webcast, press, and scholarly analysis — in case you missed what Chuck D dubbed "The Super Bowl of Internet Summits!"

Hello:

What an exciting time it is to be alive. The members of the board of the Future of Music Coalition have spent the past month waking every morning to the alarm of possibility and drifting off into the pleasant buzz of inevitable change. If you’ve been alive in the music/technology space for the past month you know for yourself how much is happening. So let’s just get right into it…