| 4/27/2009: Towards a better recognition of artists’ work in Europe | |
| Last week the European Parliament plenary voted in favour of a proposal for a Directive to extend the term of protection for performers’ rights and sound recordings and to introduce complementary meas...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/22/2009: New ways in music industry | |
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The success of websites like MyMajorCompany, NoMajorMusik or NoMajorCompany shows: music production is no longer only reserved to record companies. Nowadays consumers discover, launch and even produce...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/17/2009: The EU and its consequences for Europe’s cultural heritage | |
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Upon approval by the European Parliament, the European Commission and the Council of the EU define binding regulations for several decrees and directives for the national legislation of the 27 member ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/6/2009: Spanish video games declared cultural goods | |
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After a recent modification of the Spanish legislation the national games industry now can obtain public funding just like other cultural industries such as music and film. The new law considers games...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/3/2009: Amazon Germany gets into music business | |
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On April 1st online shop Amazon opened its MP3 music store to German customers. More than five million titles are available for MP3 players including the iPod and mobile phones with MP3 function. The ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 3/30/2009: Compromise to extend musicians’ copyright failed in Brussels | |
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The Czech presidency’s compromise proposal to extend the protection of musicians’ rights to 70 instead of 95 years failed at the EU Council last Friday. Over a year ago the European Commission came up...... Read Announcement... |
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| 3/30/2009: In memory of film music icon Maurice Jarre | |
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French film music composer Maurice Jarre died in Los Angeles last weekend at age 84. He wrote the music for more than 150 films and worked with some of the greatest directors of the last 50 years, amo...... Read Announcement... |
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| 3/3/2009: African cinema as a developing factor? | |
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The Festival panafricain du cinéma et de la télévision of Ouagadougou (FESPACO) is one of the major film festivals of the African continent. Every two years filmmakers from Africa, the African Diaspor...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/23/2009: German cinema on the road to success | |
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German State Minister for Culture Bernd Neumann highlighted the recent success of the German film industry during the Berlin Film Festival (Berlinale): Last year German films obtained a record market ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/16/2009: Spotify – tomorrow’s music portal? | |
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The Swedish enterprise Spotify has developed a streaming programme giving access to millions of music titles of the four Majors, Universal, Sony BMG, EMI and Warner, as well as numerous independent la...... Read Announcement... |
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| 2/16/2009: Cinema in crisis | |
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It seems US film industry at last has fallen victim to the economic crisis. As known US films are in general financed by big private investors, whose economic situations are getting out of hand now. C...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/30/2009: The might of art | |
| French Minister of Culture Christine Albanel recently presented to the press the project La force de l’art 02 [The might of art 02], second exhibition edition of the great Triennial dedicated to the F...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/30/2009: Gaia becomes the first Atlantic Axis Capital of Culture | |
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The Portuguese city of Vila Nova de Gaia becomes this month the first Atlantic Axis Capital of Culture, a qualification that will be attributed by the axis every two years.
In June, July and August...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/30/2009: Comic art at the Louvre! | |
| It is a premiere for the Musée du Louvre in Paris: With the exhibition Le petit dessein the Museum will for the first time and until April 13th 2009 present works by comic-strip artists.
Implementing...... Read Announcement... |
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| 1/27/2009: Professional associations of German authors and publisher consider steps against Google Book Search | |
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The Association of German writers, the German literary collecting society and the Association of German Authors and Publishers are considering a law suit against Google's "Book Search" programme. Star...... Read Announcement... |
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