11:30-12:45 Lunch
12:45-1:45 Musicians panel (with Anita Best, Stan Pickett, Peter
Narvaez, and
Victor Muise)
How do musicians in Newfoundland and Labrador seek permission to sing the song or play the tune of another? Who makes decisionsabout how traditional tunes are arranged for performance by contemporary bands or in recording studios? How can you make sure that traditional music is not used indiscriminately by transnational recording companies?
1:45-2:00 Coffee break
2:00-3:00 Archivists panel (with Neil Rosenberg, Martin Lovelace,
Philip Hiscock, and Patricia Fulton)
What is the responsibility of archivists to protect the rights of collectors and culture bearers, and yet to make their valuablecollections available to the public? How do you trace the ownership of songs that were recorded generations earlier?
3:00-3:15 Coffee break
3:15-4:15 Ethnomusicologists and folklorists panel (with Kati Szego, Johanne Devlin Trew, Dufferin Murray, Klisala Harrison, and Beverley Diamond)
For folklorists and ethnomusicologists, what are the culturally specific views about access and ownership of music that are encountered in different cultural communities? What responsibility
do researchers have to discuss these issues with musicians and