From: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org (seven-seas-digest) To: seven-seas-digest@smoe.org Subject: seven-seas-digest V3 #48 Reply-To: seven-seas@smoe.org Sender: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-seven-seas@smoe.org Precedence: bulk seven-seas-digest Saturday, January 24 2004 Volume 03 : Number 048 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 17:26:11 -0000 From: "KPJ" Subject: Re: seven-seas OT footie Cor yes please Sheldon :-) :-) > Anyone want a Heathen DB show on cd ? ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 17:47:15 -0000 From: "looloo" Subject: seven-seas Obituary in The Guardian Reading through todays's Guardian I came across the Obituary for Denis de Freitas ... father of .. Pete de Freitas....... seems he was a world expert on copyright law looloo ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 12:33:29 -0800 (PST) From: Andrew Ironside Subject: Re: seven-seas Obituary in The Guardian - --- looloo wrote: > Reading through todays's Guardian I came across the > Obituary for Denis de > Freitas ... father of .. Pete de Freitas....... > > seems he was a world expert on copyright law > > > > looloo > Is his wife still alive? Any links for the obituary? __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free web site building tool. Try it! http://webhosting.yahoo.com/ps/sb/ ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 21:20:36 -0000 From: "steve griffiths" Subject: Re: seven-seas Obituary in The Guardian his wife died some time ago. stevie g. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andrew Ironside" To: Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 8:33 PM Subject: Re: seven-seas Obituary in The Guardian > > > Is his wife still alive? Any links for the obituary? ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 13:21:14 -0700 From: "K. F. Smith" Subject: Re: seven-seas Obituary in The Guardian > Any links for the obituary? Amy posted one on VT: http://www.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,3604,1130127,00.html Obituary Denis de Freitas Master of the world of copyright law Maureen Duffy Saturday January 24, 2004 The Guardian In 1958, the West Indies Federation was formed, with the aim of helping to provide a viable transition to independence for 12 British colonial possessions of the Caribbean. The federation's solicitor general was Denis de Freitas, who has died in Barbados aged 81. By 1962, the federation had broken up. Thus did Denis find himself, at the age of 40, unemployed and with children to support. There seemed nothing for it but to try his luck in Britain. While qualifying as a solicitor, he wrote 500 letters of application before being offered a job with the Performing Right Society. This led to his transition to the complexities of copyright law, then regarded as an arcane and opaque field. From then on, his reputation increased, until he was travelling the world as adviser to governments eager to enact their own copyright legislation, in order to cope with the expanding media industries. He was also a consultant to international organisations and multinational interests, among them publishers and record producers. He was revered as a guru from Japan to the West Indies, but always returned to the big house in Goring-on-Thames that was now home to his nine children, and whose Caribbean-style balcony looked down over a leafy Surrey landscape. For 13 years, as chairman of the British Copyright Council, de Freitas exercised his talents for clarity and sensitive compromise, picking a careful way between the often conflicting interests of creators and entrepreneurs. He succeeded Lord Wolfenden in the delicate task of bringing together authors and publishers in the Copyright Licensing Agency, for the joint exercise of their reprography rights, and led the joint negotiating team that vigorously presented the views of rights holders to government in the run up to the 1989 Copyright Act. In committee, his distinctive husky voice, with the faintest touch of Barbadian, would soothe and guide his colleagues through copyright developments so that we felt we understood them almost as well as he did. Denis was born in Oxford, where his father had been sent from his native Guyana to study law. After a spell in South Africa, the family returned to Guyana, eventually settling in St Vincent. Denis was sent to boarding school in Barbados, and, at 16, was packed off to Oxford by his father with a letter of introduction to the principal of Brasenose College. Although he was not technically old enough to be admitted, the authorities had not the heart to send him home and, having sat an entrance examination, he read law as the youngest student in his year. During the second world war, he worked for five years as a research chemist at an oil refinery in Trinidad, returning to Oxford in 1945 to finish his law degree. He was called to the bar in 1948 and returned to the West Indies in the colonial legal service, serving as a magistrate in several of the then colonies. It was in St Lucia that he met his wife Madge, the daughter of a local bank manager, and began their family. He was awarded the OBE in 1982, and became honorary president of the British Copyright Council in 1994. Two sadnesses marred an otherwise varied and fulfilling life. His son Peter, the drummer with the pop group Echo And The Bunnymen, died in a motorcycle accident in 1989, and, 10 years later, his adored wife Madge died too. At our last meeting, a lunch to celebrate his 81st birthday, he told me how much he was looking forward to retiring to Barbados, where he could take his morning dip in the warm waters of the Caribbean. 7 Denis de Freitas, copyright lawyer, born June 19 1922; died December 30 2003 ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 22:38:41 -0000 From: "looloo" Subject: RE: seven-seas Interesting...no, really. Tis weird indeed .... I tried it at work first & didn;t realise till now that it had sound too! >>-----Original Message----- >>>Behalf Of Barry Whiting>> >> >>This is quite bizarre....but well worth a visit. >> >>http://www.musicplasma.com/ >> >>-- >>Barry Whiting >>barry@urquell.freeserve.co.uk ====================================== http://www.bunnymenlist.com ====================================== ------------------------------ End of seven-seas-digest V3 #48 *******************************