“Just as DRM-based copy protection prevents unauthorized users from making copies of digital goods, it also prevents cultural institutions from making copies for archival purposes. Every encrypted cultural work is locked, and to get the key, you have to pay the content owner.”
Category: issues
Is The Way We Staff The Arts All Wrong?
“For a ‘creative’ industry such as the culture sector, we have very uncreative workplaces. Many of our organisations have high core costs because they employ a lot of people in large offices with high overheads.”
Index Measures How The Arts Have Recovered Since Recession
“Arts industries turned the corner in 2010: Half of the 83 indicators increased in 2010–equivalent to pre-recession, 2007 levels. In 2008 one-third of the indicators were up; in 2009, just one-quarter increased.”
Why We Need To “Liberate” Non-Profit Data
“While Web tools using Form 990 are now in use, open data would spur many more tools and approaches, ones we cannot even imagine today.”
What Does The End of Google Reader Really Mean? War.
“Cory Doctorow has predicted a war over general purpose computing. As computers become part of the world of things, who controls the computers is a significant issue. Regulations, international trade agreements, and software that restrict users’ choices create more problems than they solve, provide bad actors, corporations, and the state opportunities for surveillance and censorship, and generally restrict freedom.”
As Google Glass Gets Real, Do We Care At All About Privacy?
“The ability — and the inclination — to keep information to ourselves seems to be slipping away with each new innovation. The question is: Does it matter?”
Eli Broad’s Still A Player In the Drama Of MoCA And LACMA
“Art world experts speculate that Broad could be motivated by rivalry with Govan and a desire to ensure a successful launch of his namesake Broad Collection museum, which is set to open across the street from MOCA’s Grand Avenue base next year.”
Australia’s Arts Funding To Get Healthy Boost Under New National Cultural Policy
“Should Simon Crean’s Creative Australia scheme pass unchanged through parliament, the federal arts funding agency will receive a 9 per cent fillip to its annual allocation. This announcement makes it the largest beneficiary of the government’s four-year $235 million vision announced yesterday.”
A Brief History Of Cultural Policy In Australia
“Although many countries have a ministry for culture or a grant-giving body such as the Australia Council for the Arts, a guiding document for cultural development is less common. It’s something we share with the tiny island-state of Malta and few others.”
Save America’s Legacy Of Sound Recordings – Fix The Copyright Laws!
Terry Teachout: “I can’t imagine that anyone on Capitol Hill sees the preservation of sound recordings as a top priority. But Congress can do one important thing that will help to save our sonic history without costing a cent: We need to straighten out America’s confused copyright laws, and we need to do it now.”