| 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.
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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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| 10/21/2008: Nobel Prize in Literature goes to France | |
| Since 1901 the Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded to authors whose works make important contributions to science, arts and culture. In the words from the will of the Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel the...... Read Announcement... |
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| 9/23/2008: Fernando Pessoa House all set for the new season | |
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Several exhibitions, an international congress and the recreation of the room of the Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa mark the program for the season 2008/2009 of the Fernando Pessoa House, which aims ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 9/5/2008: Portugal has its first Degree and Master in Culture Sciences | |
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A Degree and a Master in Culture Sciences, with a specialization in Artistic Culture will open this year (2008/2009), for the first time in Portugal, at the Decorative Art Upper School, in Lisbon.
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| 7/25/2008: Leya will put Portuguese books online with Google | |
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Leya is the first Portuguese editorial group to create a partnership with Google and to subscribe to its web search service of books in Portuguese. During this year, hundreds of titles of Portuguese a...... Read Announcement... |
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| 7/4/2008: Jewish Culture Festival in Krakow – you may watch it via Internet | |
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The Jewish Culture Festival has been taking place in Krakow since 1988, and is organized by the Jewish Culture Festival Society. Today it is one of the largest events devoted to Jewish culture. People...... Read Announcement... |
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| 5/5/2008: Porto Book Fair suffers the absence of Leya Group | |
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The book editor’s concentration in Portugal has made his first victim: The Leya Group, which concentrates eight book editors, recently announced that it will not take part in the next Porto Book Fair ...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: European Parliament rejects Internet bans for copyright abusers | |
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In a Resolution on Culture Industries in Europe, the European Parliament voted against cutting off copyright abusers from internet access. Measures like the "three-strikes-approach" to disconnect user...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/28/2008: German Bundestag adopts new law on the protection of intellectual property | |
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On 11 April 2008 the German Bundestag adopted the government draft for a law on the improved protection of intellectual property rights in its second and third reading. The opposition parties voted ag...... Read Announcement... |
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| 4/8/2008: April 23: UNESCO celebrates World Book Day | |
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Every year, UNESCO celebrates 23 April as Book Day throughout the world to promote reading, publishing and the protection of intellectual property through copyright. The date was chosen because of its...... Read Announcement... |
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| 3/10/2008: Polemics on Paris Book Fair | |
| Israel is Guest of Honour at the 28th Salon du Livre taking place in Paris from March 14th to 19th. Forty personalities from Hebraic literature are expected at the Book Fair in the French capital.
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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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| 1/28/2008: Leya group completes acquisition of its eighth Portuguese editor | |
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The editorial concentration in Portugal shows no sign of slowing down. The Leya Group, headed by Paes do Amaral, has just acquired its eight editor, Dom Quixote, formerly owned by the Spanish group Pl...... Read Announcement... |
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| 12/27/2007: France: plans for independent bookshops label | |
| The French Ministry of Culture is currently analyzing whether the creation of a label uniting independent bookshops would strengthen them and help them survive in the harsh competition with megastores...... Read Announcement... |
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