| 2/29/2008: Newsletter "European Creative Industries" – February 2/2008 | |
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Newsletter "European Creative Industries" – February 2/2008
Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,
Herewith you receive all articles published during the last two weeks on our European Information Platform....... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/27/2008: Basshunter – The new Swedish music export | |
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It all started a couple of years ago, when Jonas Altberg a.k.a. Basshunter composed a song about a so-called ”bot”, Boten Anna (Anna the Bot). But what began as fun eventually became a hit. The song w...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/27/2008: French cuisine soon to be listed as UNESCO world heritage? | |
| Last Thursday the Institut européen d’histoire et des cultures de l’alimentation (IEHCA) [European Institute for Alimentation History and Cultures] announced that the French cuisine will be suggested ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/27/2008: Keith Haring in Lyons | |
| The Lyons Museum for Contemporary Art is honouring Keith Haring, emblematic figure of the 80s New York art scene, in a special exhibition from February 22nd to June 29th 2008. The Italian curator Gian...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/27/2008: Ongoing calls – Austria fostering creativity | |
| The creative players’ economic activities need to be encouraged and facilitated in order to ensure a successful growth of the creative industries. This can be done by conveying business competences, n...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/27/2008: Facts and figures on Austria’s creative industries | |
| As a cultural nation Austria places emphasis on creative industries. Almost half the country’s creative enterprises operate in the traditionally important visual arts sector, i.e. graphic art, design,...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/25/2008: UK launches new apprenticeship strategy to boost the creative industries | |
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The UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport launched a new apprenticeship strategy – Creative Britain: New Talents for the New Economy – which aims to give more young people the opportunity to deve...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/25/2008: Create.NRW – a competition addressing creative entrepreneurs | |
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The promotional competition Create.NRW for the cultural and creative industries is organised for the second time this year by the North Rhine-Westphalia Ministry of economy, middle market and energy i...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/25/2008: Internet book sales are increasing in Sweden | |
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Since the tax on Swedish books was changed to – for Swedish circumstances – as low as 6 per cent at the 1st of January 2002, sales have increased. New figures from The Swedish Publishers Association a...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/22/2008: MySpace and music giants negotiating free online music offer | |
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According to the business journals Wall Street Journal and Financial Times the online network MySpace, a News Corporation subsidiary, is currently conducting negotiations with the majors of the music ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/22/2008: Portuguese creative industries and their challenges | |
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Creative Industries are growing in importance in Portugal, but still face many obstacles. The prevailing scenario was pictured at the first edition of the Culture and Creativity Forum, which took plac...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/18/2008: German Minister of State for Culture Bernd Neumann welcomes the European Commissioner Charlie McCreevy’s proposal to extend the term of copyright for artists. | |
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“By doing so he complies with a suggestion made by my French colleague Christine Albanel and myself some time ago. Whereas music composers’ rights are protected during 70 years following their death, ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/18/2008: Does the State have the right to sell public museum collections? | |
| The French politician Jacques Rigaud submitted his latest report to the Minister of Culture Christine Albanel on Wednesday, February 6th. The document examines the State’s possibility of selling artwo...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/18/2008: The paths of art | |
| In cooperation with the carrier company Tisséo, the Toulouse tourist home in Southern France has developed a very “undergroundy” sightseeing tour dedicated to the arts in the tube. Visitors can view t...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/18/2008: AlCultur Encounters join cultural agents to debate “Culture, Employment and Economy” and exhibit cultural projects for three days in the World Cultural Heritage City of Guimarães | |
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From the 20th to the 23rd of February, the city known by Portuguese as its nationality birth site will receive the 4th edition of the AlCultur Encounters, a meeting of different culture people, projec...... Read Announcement... |
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