STEELBAND MUSIC FANS keep expecting expansion and acceptance and worldwide recognition and global media placement of their beloved instrument -- but there is very little to write home about. I could only think of a line from a SPARROW CALYPSO that summarizes the crisis: "We grieving with frustration through mal administration - I know ...."
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The REALITY CHECK will come when we hear the name U.S.Pan Association a musicians Union with a Pan recording company and Pan publishing company. Any thoughts about digital media and copyrights or DRM, wait till the TPP is passed and companies have the rights to sue foreign governments. Who knows, I may be over-reacting.
Pan Trinbago the world governing body for the steel pan is not going to let that happen they have MOUs from the 38 pan-playing countries that signed on the Memorandum of Understanding during the International Conference Panorama held in Trinidad in August 2015.
What is the TPP? The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) writes the rules for global trade.
Digital Restrictions Management is the practice of imposing technological restrictions that control what users can do with digital media. When a program is designed to prevent you from copying or sharing a song, reading an ebook on another device, or playing a single-player game without an Internet connection, you are being restricted by DRM. In other words, DRM creates a damaged good; it prevents you from doing what would be possible without it.
We Like it So (Steel Beam) - Mighty Sparrow