Press Release

NMPA Annual Meeting to Address Copyright Term Extension, Internet Litigation, and International Trade Issues; FTC Commissioner Mozelle Thompson to Speak; World-Renowned Lyricists Alan & Marilyn Bergman to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award.
Edward P. Murphy, President and CEO of the National Music Publishers’ Association/Harry Fox Agency, announced today that this year’s annual meeting will focus on world trade, copyright extension, and Internet litigation issues, as well as the state of NMPA, HFA, and the music industry in general. The event, which will include a cocktail reception, will take place on Tuesday, June 27th at the Four Seasons Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.

Irwin Z. Robinson, Chairman of NMPA/HFA and Chairman & CEO of Famous Music Corp., will report on the ratification of the WIPO Treaties and the European Community Directive. Peter L. Felcher, Esquire, of Paul Weiss Rifkind Wharton & Garrison, general counsel to NMPA/HFA, will report on copyright term extension and Internet litigation.

Mozelle W. Thompson, Federal Trade Commissioner, will address the meeting and discuss the workings of the FTC and the important issues relating to privacy.

Alan and Marilyn Bergman, the lyricists who gave us hundreds of timeless songs including Windmills of Your Mind, Nice ‘n’ Easy, How Do You Keep the Music Playing?, The Way We Were, What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?, The Way He Makes Me Feel, and the Theme From the Summer of ’42, will be presented with the NMPA President’s Lifetime Achievement Award.

The National Music Publishers’ Association Inc., which was founded in 1917, works to protect and advance the interests of the music publishing industry. With over 700 members, the NMPA represents the most important and influential music publishing firms throughout the United States. The Harry Fox Agency, Inc., the licensing subsidiary of NMPA, provides an information source, clearing house and monitoring service for licensing musical copyrights, and represents over 23,000 music publisher principals and more than 150,000 songwriters.