“The amounts Access Copyright collects have dropped by 80 per cent since 2013 as the universities have used the new law to craft their own definitions of what they can copy for free. Society might be considered to have already paid the tenured scholars whose titles might be registered with Access Copyright, but for independent non-fiction writers who were making their careers producing Canadian material for the educational market or short-story writers whose titles had been placed on course curriculum, the 80-per-cent reduction constitutes large losses. As these writers and their publishers are squeezed, they will stop producing new books.”
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New EU Regulations On Data Collection Will Impact How Arts Organizations Track Their Audiences
“People will be able to request details of the data held about them at any time, and can require its removal in a wide range of circumstances. This is not only fundraising data but information held about everyone in an arts organisation’s database, from audiences and artists to volunteers.”
An Arts Festival In The Middle Of The Atlantic
“For the first edition of the Walk & Talk festival in 2011, its current artistic director Jesse James and fellow co-founder Diana Sousa wanted to bring ‘just one artist’ to Ponta Delgada, the capital of the Portuguese Azores islands. Now, in its seventh edition, the festival (until 29 July) has grown with more than 70 participating artists, from around the world and working across different disciplines.”
Seattle Debates A Funding Proposition To Fund Access To The Arts
“Indeed, this is the county where dreamers built worldwide institutions that reached the sky (Boeing), are working to end disease (The Gates Foundation), put computers in our homes (Microsoft), made artificial intelligence affordable (Amazon), and fueled us for the daily battles we take on (Starbucks). That creativity and imagination was surely nurtured by the art and science education that the county could continue by passing Prop 1. Without it, how will we nurture the minds that create the solutions for the struggles of the day — and the future?”
Richard Florida: Even As NY City Gets More Expensive, There Are More Artists Than Ever
“There is little doubt that New York has become prohibitively expensive for many artists, young and old alike, just as it has for middle-class people and working-class families, never mind the poor and truly disadvantaged. But according to a study released last week by the New York-based Center for an Urban Future (CUF), the city is actually home to more artists than ever.”
Report: Five Years Later, Arts Funding Has Become Even Less Equitable
“Apparently, despite all our best intentions and our good will efforts, not only have we failed to make even a slight dent in the inequity of funding disproportionately going to the big, white, rich urban cultural organizations – at the expense of the smaller and rural organizations, especially those serving people of color, people with disabilities and the LGBT community. MORE of the total funding is now going to the largest cultural organizations, not less. So far anyway, all the efforts to the contrary have not yielded any substantial or measurable change from the situation five years ago. Indeed, from an equity standpoint, things are worse, not better.”
Bring Arts Education To Students Around The World? Hmnnn…
“These countries are tending not to prioritise the arts in national curriculums, assessments or in depictions of effective pedagogy. Given the extraordinary and immediate challenges they face in terms of pupil enrolment, teacher quality and learning outcomes, this may not be surprising but it may also be a missed opportunity.”
Three Essential Lessons We Can Learn From The Nuyorican Poets
“Wow! That’s a powerful and inspiring mission that would certainly get me out of bed and into work every morning. It doesn’t get bogged down in the what-we-do or how-we-do-it. And it is outwardly focused, offering a value proposition to the neighborhood, the community and the country.”
Snopes, The Internet’s Favorite Myth-Debunker, Says It’s Being ‘Held Hostage’
“So, what’s going on? Well, it probably won’t surprise you that there’s a startup tech company and a lawsuit involved. There are claims and counterclaims. But if you want to know the gory details that are available in the court filings, here we go.”
Egypt’s President Is Using The Arts To Push His Agenda (Just Like His Most Famous Predecessor)
Gen. Gamal Abdel-Nasser, who overthrew King Farouk and established the Republic of Egypt, “often used art as a means to convey political messages and decisions to citizens, raise their morale and entrench their sense of belonging to the state.” (Among his collaborators: Umm Kulthum, then and now the Arab world’s most revered singer.) The country’s current president, Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, is using a similar approach.