Paul McGuinness

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Name = Paul McGuinness


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Birth_name = Paul McGuinness
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Born = June 1951
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Origin = Rinteln, Germany
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Occupation = Music Manager
Years_active = 1979 — present
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Associated_acts = U2, PJ Harvey, Art of Noise, Paddy Casey, Mytownband, The Rapture
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Paul McGuinness is the main shareholder and founder of Principle Management Limited: an artist management company based in Dublin, Ireland, which has managed U2 from the start of their successful career. He is the manager of U2, PJ Harvey, Art of Noise, Paddy Casey, Mytownband, and The Rapture.

Born in June 1951 in Rinteln near Hanover, Germany, in an army hospital, his father being placed with the RAF there. Paul then was sent to boarding school in Ireland in 1961: the Clongowes Wood College, run by the Jesuits. He then went on to Trinity College in Dublin but was unable to take the exams as he hadn't attended lectures. After his parents unsuccessful attempt to get him enrolled at University of Southampton, he returned to Trinity to finish the third year.

His career has been spent working in the entertainment industry and he is well known throughout the world in both the film and music business.

McGuinness holds numerous directorships including TV3 and Ardmore Studios. He is a board member of Digital Hub Development Agency and of the School of Film and Drama at University College Dublin. He is also a member of the Phantom FM consortium that in November 2004 secured a broadcasting licence for alternative rock music radio station in the Dublin area.

He has previously been a member of the Arts Council of Ireland, serving on three successive Arts Councils, from 1989 until 2000. He was also a member of The Millennium Committee and the Content Advisory Group of the Information Society Commission (the Commission, an independent advisory body to the Irish Government, was disbanded at the end of 2004).

On January 28, 2008, in a speech at the Midem music industry convention in Cannes, McGuinness called on governments to compel ISPs to introduce mandatory "three strike" service disconnections to end unauthorized downloading, and specifically accused companies such as Apple, Google, Yahoo!, Oracle, and Facebook of building "multi billion dollar industries on the back of our content without paying for it", and of being "makers of burglary kits" who have made "a thieve's charter" to steal money from the music industry.

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