AMPAL Chair Catherine Gerrard and General Manager Jeremy Fabinyi attended MIDEM - the annual music industry trade event - in Cannes recently. About 20 other Australian companies were also there. The AMPAL delegation represented Australian and New Zealand music publishers at the Annual General Meeting of ICMP - the International Confédération of Music Publishers - as well as attending briefings on development of the Global Repertoire Database and other issues of critical importance to the music publishing community.