AV News 177 - August 2009
Editorial
J ill K B u n tin g CPAGB & J o h n S m ith APAGB CPAGB
One thing that we are finding out, as this is
our fourth issue since we took over the reins
from Joan and Glyn, is that each issue of the
magazine is very different!! It is not intentional
but more to do with the time of year.
The last one was unnashamedly full of
competition news and results but this time,
because of the summer break, we have
hardly any. This issue contains more helpful
hints and tips from some established
competition winners, a few technical items
and news from around the clubs both at home and abroad. Plus our attempts
to unravel the somewhat complicated music copyright issues.
Thank you to everyone who has sent us articles and reports, please
continue to do so, but a little plea. News items and articles are rather like
busses!! None seem to come for a while and so, as the deadline approaches,
we start to panic and look around for items of interest that we might be able
to use to fill the pages. Then, thankfully, a good number arrive, some of which
are time sensitive and therefore have to be included. So please, to enable us
to at least partially plan the layout in advance and to stop our hair going even
greyer, (in John's case - what hair!!!), can you please let us have your news
items as early as possible after an event, or at least inform us that something
will be forthcoming.
It is with sadness that we have to report the deaths of Liliane Dorikens and
Eileen Hitchcock. We saw Eileen just a couple of weeks before, enjoying a
sail from Ashton-under-Lyne down the Rochdale Canal on a Wilmslow Guild
AV Group outing, so it was even more of a shock to us to hear of her death.
Our thoughts are with their families at this sad time.
The copyright issue has once again raised its head with quite a number of
our readers becoming more and more confused by the complexity of it all.
Sequence producers have often bought their licences from the IAC either as
members of the RPS or of a club that is affiliated to the PAGB. Unfortunately
however, the two available licences only allow you to re-record the music for
use in a sequence, but do not allow that piece of music to be performed in
public. To legally do this you need to obtain the Phonographic Performance
Ltd (PPL) licence which is only able to be purchased by the members of the
IAC or IAC affiliated clubs. See Page 12 for the full report.
Enough of all that serious stuff - we have enjoyed meeting people and
putting faces to names during our talks and travels around the clubs. We are
keen to encourage our smaller groups or just individuals to tell us what they
are doing. Remember you don't need to work alone - help is there either by
telephone, emails or our website at www.avnews.org.uk
Have a good summer and see you at the Nationals.
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