Appendix 6 - International Music Council

Ukraine
Some musicians supported the peaceful Orange Revolution. Although they did not initiate
it, their music played an important role in bundling political forces.
(http://www.ukrweek ly.com/Archive/2005/480511.shtml)
4 The standards regulating musical diversity
INTRODUCTION TO SECTION 4
Definition / Explanation of regulations
This section focuses on regulations and standards
created by the state (laws, acts,
constitutions etc. and state institutions created by the legislative such as state schools) or
which are state- induced (public broadcasting, collecting societies) or other institutions
having a national status and cooperating with the state (e.g. music councils). As an
alternative to regulations and standards,
the term "structure" is used.
This section does not describe all structures influencing a country's music or musical life,
but limits itself to structures having an impact on musical diversity (according to the
different definitions mentioned earlier).
The structures relevant in this section are diverse in the sense that they are not found in a
single act, but in many; there is not only one institutions dealing with musical diversity in
each
country, but there are many. Accordingly, this report regards many different aspects.
The following subsections have been formed to cover the whole field coherently:
• the media: the sections 4.1 and 4.2 regard broadcasting services and the new domain of
the internet; section 4.1 not only discusses structures created by the state, but also
private radio in order not to treat different aspects of broadcasting in different sections
of this report
• education: section 4.3 analyses the educational system (schools, universities etc.)
• sub sidy: section 4.4 looks at subsidies for musical activities, traditionally an important
instrument
of culture policies;
• copyright: section 4.5 examines
copyright legislation and related issues such as the
collecting societies involved in the enforcement of copyright legislation;
• others: section 4.6 explores other structures
such as the activities of music councils and
research institutions.
References to Relevant Material in Other Sections
Some aspects of section 4 have been mentioned already in the section 1, 2 and 3. Section
1
contains information on legal issues. For instance, the question if and how the freedom of
musical expression is ensured by law. This information is not repeated in this section.
Section 2 describes economic activities and projects which are partly initiated by the state.
As far as they depend on regulations created
by the state they are relevant for this section.
Section 3 describes projects related to war and peace. Some of these projects are supported
by state programs. Section 4 acts as a counterpoint to section 6 in the sense that both
sections deal with complementary domains: while section 4 deals with the regulations
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