Australia's country music capital brand is synonymous with Tamworth and now the local council wants to make sure that's set in stone.
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Tamworth Regional Council (TRC) will take stock of all of the city's country music intellectual property rights with an audit as the festival approaches its 50th year.
The move began with councillor Glenn Inglis who felt it was important to protect Tamworth's brand as Australia's home of country music.
"Mr Mayor you and I have been speaking about this for months," he said.
"That list is maybe not even complete, there may well be other things.
"It's the social history and development of the festival isn't it because some of those things go back 50 years and it's been an accumulation of those things over the last 49 years."
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"The amount of people who have been involved in those things, getting those things and making those things happen over the last 50 years and it just struck me today Mr Mayor as something for you to think about because it is out 50th celebration next year, it would just seem appropriate if possible if at our 50th we had a specific celebration around that and trying to recognise the very people who made that happen.
"Maybe even Mr Mayor, I sort of feel a song coming on."
The review will include trademarks, patents, copyright and designs.
Everything from Tamworth Country Music Festival (TCMF) logos to the cavalcade, the Big Golden Guitar and even the award trophies should be protected from commercialisation by others, Cr Inglis said, as well as the Country Music Roll of Renown, the Hall of Fame, the wax museum and more.
"This audit will place us in good stead for the next 50 years of country music in Tamworth and I think it's a great thing to protect our intellectual assets and have something to call our own," he said.
Cr Juanita Wilson said it's a fabulous festival with fabulous branding, and said she could remember when there was a contract between the Country Music Association of Australia and the council to host the Golden Guitars every year and the interesting thing at the time was that the phrase 'in Tamworth' was left off.
Cr Wilson said the need to keep the festival is what prompted the TRECC build.