More on Brisbane's Fête de la Musique

FYI, and many thanks to Sean O'Boyle & Lyndon Terracini for taking this up with Brisbane Marketing. Sean wrote:

 . . .  someone passed me your email, I was at a dinner with some heavyweights that Brisbane Marketing organised and I bought up the very point you're making. Lyndon Terracini also got stuck in. I think the message is loud and clear. The guys who organised it at Bris Marketing are quite low on the food chain and I don't think that the "non-payment" ever filtered to the top. John Aitken is a good bloke and he will be putting the right changes in place.

Would also appear that the Australasian Performing Right Association Australia (APRA) had a fair role to play in bringing this event to Australia, given the fairly heated lunchtime debate about this today at the Creative Commons Conference at the State Library of Queensland. APRA refuted the facts as argued below (last blog post).

Also interesting to note that someone has subsequently altered the Fête de la Musique charter as posted at Wikipedia re. the terms of playing for free . . .
Here's the change made at 14.32 today - http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Fête_de_la_Musique&diff=221405971&oldid=221205313

And some fairly nasty following anonymous posts to the last blog entry, including comments about the Conservatorium not paying performing artists, etc. (Although I should add, many more emails from musicians around the country in support). And so, I think that's likely enough of that for me. Sean & Lydon have weighed in well, so many thanks to them again. I think we made our point.