“The Fringe Society say that an estimated 1,877,119 tickets were issued this year. A rise of 2.6% on last year’s equivalent figures, it does not include attendances at the fringe’s increasing number of free events.”
Category: issues
Detroit Science Center CEO Suddenly Resigns
Kevin “Prihod’s sudden resignation on Friday and news that the Science Center faces revenue shortfalls and has fallen behind on mortgage payments on its $5 million in real-estate debt, raises complex questions about Prihod’s vision for the museum. Is the Science Center suffering from entrepreneurial overreach, poor management, the financial hangover of the recession or a combination of factors?”
Arkansas Arts Center Erases $4 Million In Debt
“Warren Stephens, chairman of the Arkansas Arts Center Foundation, on Monday announced that the foundation had raised $4 million for the Arts Center, eliminating the center’s troublesome debt.”
Congressman Calls For “Clarification” Of Copyright Laws To Benefit Artists
Arguing that Congress has an obligation “to preserve fairness and justice for artists,†the senior Democrat on the House Judiciary Committee has called for a revision of United States copyright law to remove ambiguities in the current statute about who is eligible to reclaim ownership rights to songs and sound recordings.
Re-revising Copyright Law To Help Artists, If Congress Can Only Agree
“For too long the work of musicians has been used to create enormous profits for record labels, radio stations and others, without fairly distributing these profits to the artists,†said Representative John Conyers Jr. of Michigan.
Keep Subscribing: That Newspaper Could Fuel Your Car
At Tulane, a bacteria is turning newspapers into fuel. “Old editions of the Times Picayune, New Orleans’ daily newspaper, have been successfully used by the researchers to produce butanol from the cellulose in the paper.”
Coming Explosion Of URL Suffixes Is A Confusing Protection Racket, Says Esther Dyson
ICANN is set to introduce “a host of new Top-Level Domains (TLDs), the suffixes that go after the dot, such as .com, .org, and, soon, .anything. … [The] value formerly associated with Apple could now be divided into Apple.computers, apple.phone, ipod.apple, and so on. If this sounds confusing, that’s because it is.”
What Should Non-Profits Do When A Donor Goes Bad?
“Recent scandals within the business community of massive malfeasance have been well publicized. Many nonprofits have received largesse from the same business leaders who perpetrated accounting, financial, and economic scandals. As a result, nonprofit organizations must be forearmed and ready to react upon the revelation that a donor once perceived to be clean is now tainted.”
The Withering Effects Of Budget Cuts On The Once Legendary California University System
“Roughly the same number of students are being taught by 16 percent fewer instructors than five years ago, and with fewer courses. The campus has eliminated more than 300 courses in that period, a decline of 8 percent. Gone are 61 tenured or tenure-track faculty members and 216 lecturers. The number of students remains just under 30,000.”
A Tough Few Months For Aussie Arts
No really big disasters. Rather, a series of unrelated events that just haven’t gone the way they might have…