[Fmpro] Turner Classic Movies / Film Music Magazine Expo

[Markholden@aol.com]

For those of you who couldn't make the Expo in Los Angeles on Friday, it was 
quite a day. Some of the best and frankest talk about film & TV scoring, game 
scoring, business, and entertainment law I've ever heard. I hope the tapes 
will be available online.

One thing's for sure -- you would NEVER hear the same content at an ASCAP 
sponsored event. The panels at the Expo were not "sanitized for your protection" 
and some hard truths were spoken. Indeed, it was the only noncensored industry 
event of its size and kind in Los Angeles going back at least fifteen years.

I hope much of the Expo content will be discussed herein. For now, I've 
asserted that A-List composers will be disinterested in any move to unionize, and I 
was correct. There's no upside for marquee composers to involve themselves in 
matters for which they are generally immune. Going for a guild or other 
composer-rights advocacy will be the business of upper middle-class and 
middle-class composers, if at all.

Anyone else on the List able to attend?

Very best,

Mark Holden
FMPRO Admin