A campaign may obtain “public performance” licenses from performing rights organizations like ASCAP or BMI, which typically allows for the use of whatever songs are in their catalogs. Trump’s campaign very well may have secured such licenses to play songs on the trail.
Month: July 2016
After Decades Of Chaos, Somalia Is (Re-)Developing A Book Industry And Culture
“As the war-weary nation slowly gains more stability, there has been an uptick in the number of festivals promoting books and the culture of reading. The fairs have become an important place to expose Somalis to different writers and cultures across Somalia, Africa, and the world.”
So You Want To Build A Performing Arts Center. Here’s The Cost-Benefit Proposition
Do you believe that arts centers create jobs? That they improve business? That they enrich the lives of the community? As a community in Colorado considers building another new center, Ray Rinaldi looks at the experience of some of the state’s other arts centers and their impact on their communities.
‘R&D In The Arts’ – What Does That Really Mean, And What Should It Mean?
“‘R&D in the arts’ seems to be quite a new thing, inspired by the [tech industry], but not motivated by financial revenue. I worry about the arts taking on the mantle, because R&D and innovation are terms with such an overwhelming direction built in to them – a direction in favour of commercial digital products. No one ever asks what the problems are in digital which the arts might be able to solve. The arts are on the back foot. As I often say, why don’t they have dancers-in-residence at Google?”
Why Women Are Starting To Have More Leadership Roles In Orchestras
“Doors are beginning to open for female conductors not due to any delayed sense of fair play, however, but for the simple reason that there are more women in symphony orchestras these days and they are much less resistant to being led by a woman than the male-dominated orchestras of the past.”
Disney Subsidiary Pleads Guilty To ‘Star Wars’ Safety Violations That Smashed Harrison Ford’s Leg
“Two years after the actor Harrison Ford was badly injured on the set of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by a hydraulic door on the Millennium Falcon starship, a Disney subsidiary” – Foodles Productions – “pleaded guilty to two criminal charges in a British court.”
City Commissions Public Mural, Fusses And Interferes Over Detail After Detail, Then Finally Paints Over The Whole Thing
“Yesterday afternoon, artist Gary Wynans, who goes by Mr. AbiLLity, learned that [Jersey City] workers had painted over his giant painting of a Monopoly game board at the heavily trafficked Newark Avenue Pedestrian Plaza. … The surprise paint job was not the first time City Hall has made its mark on Mr. AbiLLity’s board. The entire process was riddled by authorities’ demands that the artist edit his work, foreseeing possible controversy around the original image.”
Magazine For LGBTQ Arabs Publishes Its First Arabic Issue, And Things Get Dangerous
“Lawsuits and death threats have been volleyed at Jordan-based LGBTQ webzine My.Kali, which has just released its first Arabic-language issue in the May/June 2016 edition. My.Kali went live in 2007 and has traditionally published its ‘dialogue surrounding LGBTQ issues’ exclusively in English.”
As Controversy Over Deaccessioning Raged, Troubled Fisk University Sold Off Two Pieces Of Art
“When Fisk University, the historically black school in Nashville, tried to sell two paintings several years ago from its storied Alfred Stieglitz art collection, a firestorm erupted. … [But] with the debate over the future of Fisk itself swirling around her, Hazel O’Leary, then the university’s president, on behalf of the school quietly sold off two other paintings owned by Fisk.”
Warning: This Mozart Opera Is So Extreme And Shocking That We’ll Let You Turn Your Tickets In For A Refund In Advance
“Graphic depictions of violence, racist abuse and sexual assault are all expected to feature in a hard-hitting new production of Mozart’s Così fan tutte. But the [Edinburgh International Festival] failed to fully warn buyers when the tickets went on sale on April because it had not seen the three-and-a-half-hour opera, which will be performed at the Festival Theatre at the end of August.”