Thursday, June 11, 2009  World Copyright Summit - Robin Gibb
interview  At right is a crop of the brochure for the World
Copyright Summit, held June 9th and 10th 2009 in Washington DC.
What is remarkable is that, while a photographer is an iconic
visual representation of copyright on their brochures and
website, not a single photographer, illustrator, or, as Robin
Gibb pointed out, painter, is on the program for the Summit.
Further, not a single photographer's trade organization was in
attendance as a delegate (we asked the registration team there),
so we put the question to the organizers of the event, CISAC,
and asked Robin Gibb, their President, to help us understand how
this happened.  It was suggested that organizations like the
Copyright Alliance, which was in attendance, collectively
represents those creators, as they have photographer
associations as members. However, to not have a single
photographer, illustrator, or painter on stage, while the vast
majority of other creators were, seems rather odd.