“Ensuring that copyright was temporary was expressly written into the Constitution … While the Founders’ copyright was for 14 years, today’s copyright lasts over 100 years. Thus the instrument the founders created to ‘promote the progress of the sciences’ is actually being used to impede the progress of the sciences” and culture.
Author: Matthew Westphal
Can Getty Keep Its Prized Roman Bronze? Italy Still Hasn’t Decided
“Italy’s highest court has once more delayed a ruling on whether it will affirm a lower court’s decision ordering the Getty Museum to return one of its most prized antiquities, the so-called Getty Bronze, to Italy after 36 years as one of the foremost works on display at the Getty Villa in Malibu.”
Acropolis Gets Its Caryatids Cleaned – With Lasers
Inside a makeshift fabric booth at the Acropolis Museum in Athens, as tourists pass by and look in, conservators use laser tools that look something like blow-dryers to remove the crusty grime that built up over decades on the graceful female statues that formed porch columns at the ancient temple. (slide show)
‘America’s First Queer Jazz Festival” To Debut In Philadelphia
“With funding from the Pew Center for Arts and Heritage,” the city’s William Way LGBT Community Center “coordinated at least five venues to host dozens of musicians from around the country to take part in OutBeat,” scheduled for mid-September.
Senior Showgirls Strut Their Stuff Again At Palm Springs Follies
“The Palm Springs Follies is an old-fashioned musical revue designed for an audience who remembers when this sort of entertainment wasn’t old fashioned. But it’s not only for older people – it’s by older people. The dancers range in age from 55 to 84.”
Switzerland To Open $46M Charlie Chaplin Museum
“After more than 14 years of discussions and stumbling blocks, work to turn screen legend Charlie Chaplin’s Swiss home into a museum has finally begun, with the opening planned in early 2016.”
Chuck Berry, Peter Sellars Win 2014 Polar Music Prize
“They’ve probably never shared a stage together, and they are a strange match even by the odd-pairings standards of entertainment awards. Peter Sellars, the innovative Los Angeles-based director of opera and theater, and rock pioneer Chuck Berry were named the dual recipients of the annual Polar Music Prize, one of the highest honors in the field of music.”
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What Vasily Petrenko Really Thinks About Female Conductors (He’s Married To One)
“[The furor over his remarks last fall] is an example of misquotation and actually quite a grotesque distortion from what I was saying. … I do understand that people who read it as it was reported were upset and even offended, but what I was actually saying was totally different. I was never against women conductors at all.”
Singers’ Union Withdraws Suit Against San Diego Opera
“The American Guild of Musical Artists, which represents solo singers, chorus singers and stage management personnel at the opera, filed the claim with the National Labor Relations Board on March 26, accusing the opera company of failing to honor year-long contracts with 35 singers.” The union now promises to work with the new board to put up a 2015 season.