[© CTI, "We are red, we are white, we are Danish Dynamite"]
+++Update 09.45 a.m. and 04.10 p.m.: (Message No. 2*) +++
+++Didn´t met Jonathan Klein after breakfast at the Smørum Golf Club this morning+++Unbelievable+++Getty announced yesterday that John had to stay at home+++He has to prepare his presentation at the Sixth Annual Thomas Weisel Partners Growth Forum conference on June 16, 2004 at the Montage Resort in Laguna Beach, CA+++Thomas Weisel Partners is a merchant bank focused exclusively on the growth sectors of the economy+++Klein will speak at 9:20 am Pacific Time+++That´s where the bucks come in+++So who cares what the CEPIC is+++Very disappointing experience+++Another spanish golf player tried to hack our cell phone with toothing+++We had to report this to the local authorities+++Caused quite an upset+++Police officer said: "We are red, we are white, we are Danish Dynamite"+++Spanish golf player responded with Shaw: "I am green, you are blue. Our lifemates are insane"+++He went to prison+++And we to the bar to have a Gimlet+++
+++Update 11.10 p.m.: (Message No. 3*) +++
+++At the bar met one guy from a french agency with two bunnies from a british agency++Can´t name them+++Totally drunk+++CEPIC hasn´t even started+++After one hour nobody was playing golf anymore+++All drunk+++Annoying registration process+++Names on all our badges were misspelled+++Waiting for the event in the evening+++Hans Christian Andersen Parade+++Kinda danish dance group with cute WASPs+++”very danish, wonderful and just like a fairy tale coming true”+++Yippie+++
© Link: Cute WASPs of the Hans Christian Andersen Parade
+++”with its unique charm, a professional magnetism and, at the same time, its warm and spontaneous joy of acting”+++Howdidowdi+++Best Local Entertainment availabe!+++Unbelievable, these danish guys know how to party+++This is a CEPIC event!+++Sylvie, we love you!+++When will you ever learn not to mail us ten times if you only wanna tell us just one thing+++More tomorrow+++Good night+++
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[*!Caution!Skit! Message No. 2 and Message No. 3: Skit!*]
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AND HERE IT COMES:
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The opening speech of the CEPIC Congress '04 by CEPIC Chairman Alan Smith
"Last year, shortly after our Lisbon Congress Jim Pickerell, our first speaker today, wrote in Selling Stock that Cepic Congress was the "must attend" meeting of the year for the stock industry. Well, his message was heard and 625 delegates, and 375 companies from 50 countries have taken his words to heart. These figures for our 11th Congress are double those of our Congress in Budapest so short a while ago. As this is the only time we shall all be together I would like to bring to your attention and to thank the small band of heroes who have made this Congress possible and who have given so much of their time to the work of Cepic, this organisation which represents our industry to the EU and WIPO and which is formed out of the membership of the European national associations.
First I mention our officers, our vice president, Jean Desaunois of FNAPPI, France, our mentor on press matters and our statutes and to whom, importantly, the French president awarded the Legion d'Honneur recently, our treasurer, Steffan Teste, Bildombudsman to Sweden's BLF who is our watchdog on collecting societies and copyright and who additionally finds time to work on the Congress Sub Committee.
On our committee are Paul Brown of Rex Features and the UK's BAPLA, Barbro Kaufman of IMS and SBF Sweden, Peter Remmersen, Picture Press and BVPA Germany and Roel Sandwoort of Hollandse-Hoogte and Holland's HPA. They all turn up reliably to committee meetings wherever they may be. Additionally to the committee, I would draw to your attention Katrin Goepel of AKG, Berlin, Paris and London, whose Berlin office houses our administration and supports us in every way, to BLF, our Swedish Association Member which has done so much to organise this Congress, to its member, Bjorn Henriksson for his signage to Nils Frederikson of Image2Use for his sourcing and help, and, finally, our Administrator Sylvie Fodor, whose efforts and time spent on our behalf go well beyond the EU working hours limits and whose knowledge and experience is of huge benefit to us.
Will they stand whilst we show our appreciation to them all. Can I urge you all to contribute to our work by becoming supporting members. For a small fee you, and we, gain a lot.
What brings us all to this "must attend meeting"? It is, I suggest, the power of the picture. The "wow" factor, which words cannot rival. We only have to look at the impact the pictures from Iraq have to realise this. But that power needs protection for it to flourish. That is what copyright provides. The Intellectual Property contained in copyright, WIPO (the World Intellectual Property Organisation) says, is the principal currency of the 21st century and that is what protects our work and gives the necessary financial returns.
But if copyright defends us and underpins our work, the need to protect it is not the only danger, and that is why this plenary session is about challenges. These are difficult times of mergers, takeovers and closures. It is said in England that a sheep's worst enemy is a sheep and the alliances and networks which form so readily are often defensive within our industry as well as means of using the new technology to find new markets and resist the attempts by publishers, the wolves, in this story, to reward our costly system improvements by cutting prices.
There are many challenges that lie ahead of us and it is to enable us all to be ready for these that we have brought such a distinguished panel of speakers together. Their biographies are contained in the programme, which you should all have.
Now a brief word on getting the most for your bucks this Congress. We shall see short films for the PACA International Autumn Meeting in New York and one for next year's Cepic Congress in Prague, and a promotion by Danish Photographers. When we finish this morning our Cepic cheer leaders will lead the way round to the Boersen where the tables will be open and lunch in the adjacent room will be ready. There is no entry for the tables before 12.30. There is a meeting notice board and a press release board at the entrance. At 5 o'clock, Polfoto are sponsoring a reception in their offices, details of which are on the notice board. The tables will close at 6.30, not at 6.00 as it says in the programme, and at 7.00pm there will be a reception in the nearby Thorwaldsen's Museum. It is a short walk from there to many restaurants and cafes.
On Saturday the Boersen will open at 9 o'clock. There will be lunch in the Boersen and the tables and Boersen will close at 5 o'clock. Throughout the two days there are seminars, details of which are in your programmes. For those of you going to the gala dinner, please do not go to Restaurant Nimb through Tivoli Gardens, or you will have to pay a separate entrance fee. Entrance to Restaurant Nimb is from the Bernstoffsgade street and the door is open from 7.30. We shall sit down at 7.45. After dinner we are free to walk in the gardens and to join in the entertainments. There will be a fireworks display at 11.45 and the gardens close at midnight.
As you may have gathered last night from the performance, 2005 is the 200 anniversary of Danish Writer Hans Christian Anderson's birth and a specially formed charity will raise huge sums to fight illiteracy. We now know about this and may be able to help in publicising the work and let us not forget that it was Danish astronomers who first measured the speed of light, so essential to the workings of the camera, and it was Hamlet, a Danish prince, who, according to Shakespeare, said "To be or not to be". Let us hope that by Sunday morning, when incidentally there will be an excursion to Hamlet's Castle, we will all know that Cepic Congress 2004 Copenhagen was the place to be."
[Thx to a anonymous mailer with the name "Willy" who emailed this! Wow! Transcript of a hidden voice recorder??? That´s very investigative. Willy, can you email us again? We´d like to assign a proper copyright!]
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