Normally associated with the uninspiring world of invoicing, Electronic Data Interchange may now have come to the rescue of independent classical music producers feeling the squeeze from the international music publishing groups: a group of French, German and Belgian producers has won backing from the European Commission to develop a network giving producers, distributors and the public access to an electronic musical catalogue, while cutting costs by allowing the electronic exchange of orders and invoices over the network; GFI, a French division of software services group SD-Scicon Plc, is to undertake the so-called Musik project, for which the Commission has released an initial UKP125,000 funds.
