Music: Live 8 concerts: Live 8 DVDs to be released Nov 8, says Geldoff, says Fox 411 entertainment alert

Live 8, the series of concerts that were part of the worldwide lobby effort on behalf of reducing Africa's extreme poverty at last summer's G8 Summit in Gleneagles, Scotland, will be releasing a set of 4 DVDs of the mega-music event on November 8, 2005.



While the special Technorati webpage that updates Live 8 developments hasn't yet taken cognizance of the super-release, Fox 411, a daily entertainment email newsletter, has a full account (along with on rapper Kenye West's new album, and one by Tim McCarthy as well).

According to Sir Bob Geldof's press release, "EMI and the Live 8 organization have agreed that a generous royalty from sales of the Live 8 DVD will go to the Band Aid Trust for the relief of hunger and poverty in Africa." The Fox 411 coverage explores the questions arising in regard to who will give what to whom in line with the charitable purposes of the Concert Event/s. "The four-disc set includes all of the big performances from London, Philadelphia and Edinburgh. Separate discs from the Paris, Berlin, Rome and Toronto shows will also be available." Do the royalties that are hived off for the owners of the songs become profits for the writers and/or subsequent owner who bawt them from writers, thus compromising the principle of charity in a separate category from the "royalties for the discs sold?," Fox 411 asks.

Watch for further developments as November 8 approaches. And watch the Technorati Live 8 by means of our badge in the right-hand column, to follow how quickly its front page gives attention to this latest emergent issue in the relief movement against extreme poverty in Africa. - Owlb