Appendix 6 - International Music Council

include the attitudes of younger generations, the opportunities for musical evolution
or innovation, the adequacy and structure of music education, the presence or
absence of an economic basis for survival.
These suggestions are intended only as guidance and do not exhaust the possibilities.
a) Consolidation and action of diverse national coalitions might be an effective
method to overcome obstacles and challenges established in free commercial
trade.
Chile is the single country which has introduced exception clauses or cultural
reservations in its commercial agreements. “In the Free Trade Agreement […] we
signed cultural exception and reserve clauses in order to preserve the cultural
industry and maintain autonomous development based on a strong identity”.
América Latina: Cuánto vale la cultura. Diego Cevallos. Internet Press Service
New Agency (IPS) – http://ipsnoticias.net/interna.asp?idnews=31160
b) That might be a civil victory over unfair clauses favoring owners of the global
economic power. Society could establish a single Latin-American Coalition for
the Protection of Cultural Diversity and Copyright –included in free commerce
trades- putting pressure on governments to exclude popular culture from
negotiation.
Rafael Segovia, representing Mexico in the International Network for Cultural Diversity,
asks for a revision of the NAFTA, exposing it as follows: “the clause referring to culture
is that one about copyright. It is mainly commercial and defends the United States
entertainment industry’s interests. Considering a NAFTA review, an exception clause
concerning culture should be inserted.”
Mundo: UNESCO aprueba convenio para proteger la Diversidad Cultural. Servicio de
Información Indígena (SERVINDI). http://www.servindi.org/archivo/2005/124
rsegovia@colmex.mx
Miguel Necoechea exposes that the North America Free Trade Agreement (Canada,
United States and Mexico) has seriously damaged Mexican culture, because of the
economic superiority of the USA and Canada and also because the Mexican government,
in order to reach a range of competition with them, agreed to transfer to unclear and
confusing clauses the obligation to establish cultural policies, taking them out from their
natural social environment and placing them in the balance of capital and private
commerce.
(Complete reference in: México en la Cultura: A diez años del Tratado de Libre
Comercio de América del Norte. Miguel Necoechea. Representante de la Asociación
Mexicana de Productores Independientes y de la Coalición para la Diversidad Cultural de
México. –
http://www.artv.art.br/cenal/internacional19.htm)
8. Bring to light those good practices and actions that need to be strengthened and
widely practiced in this field.
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