Tag Archive for the term: policy

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Dear friends and fellow folks working, loving and living in the arts.
You have undoubtedly heard by now about the major funding cuts ($25 million +) to various programs in what else but arts and culture, hindering international touring and distribution above all, recently announced by the Harper government. These cuts put the future [...]

I hammered out notes on the first half of the curated questioning of Gilberto Gil here, and now will continue to delight with more notes on digital policy, weee!
As part of the conversation about access, I asked about how understanding open software in comparison to ideals from Tropicalismo has helped advance free software in Brazil. [...]

Thursday I attended Dan Levitin’s keynote speech and listened to the conversation that followed between himself and a panel of interesting cronies about “the paradise of infinite storage” and how to monetize it. The premise was that all music will be available for free online somewhere someday soon, if not already, and that the way [...]