ECSA Chairman Alfons Karabuda announced yesterday in his capacity of Chairman of the Award Committee of the Polar Music Prize the laureates of the prize. “The Polar Music Prize 2012 is awarded to Paul Simon. Nobody else is more deserving of the epithet of “world-class songwriter.” For five decades, Paul Simon has built bridges not only over troubled waters but over entire oceans by (re)joining the world’s continents with his music....

ECSA's contemporary music pillar ECF (European Composers' Forum) launched today its' new website. ECF deals specifically with issues affecting the composers of arts and concert music. Major aim is to stimulate and initiate activities to foster contemporary music composition in Europe and to increase the awareness for contemporary music. For further information please click here.

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Two intense days for ECSA, the ECSA structure working group met on May 2nd and the ECSA coercion working group met on May 3rd. Both meetings took place in the new ECSA office in Brussels and proved to be an excellent opportunity to assess current ECSA issues such as the complaint against broadcasters and their afficiliated production companies. The...

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Following the ECSA complaint against coercive practices, several international associations representing interests of creators issued a joint statement calling for immediate action against coercive contractual practices facing creators in Europe.

The undersigned organizations call for 8 non-waivable key principles to be resected in contractual agreements in order to safeguard the livelihood of...