“The artists say the bill gives consumers new rights and big producers new laws, but doesn’t compensate individual creators for new uses of their work.”
Tag: 11.02.10
The Gulag Museum, Where It’s OK to Have Fun
Perm-36, the last of the forced labor camps for which the Soviet Union was notorious, is now a tourist attraction that has hosted a rock festival and a site-specific staging of Fidelio. Says a guide, “Our aim is not to make people feel guilty. It’s to draw a line [under the past] and show how far we’ve come – and make it harder for anything like this ever to happen again.”