“Copyright industries are uniquely dependent on governments’ willingness to enforce good laws, particularly as globalization expands and Internet and broadband penetration escalates rapidly around the globe,” Smith said. “Indeed, as our citizens and creators look to the great potential of a world of e-commerce, the legal and secure transmission...
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“THE time has come to take a deep breath and admit something fairly radical about the arts. Culture is big business. It brings in millions of pounds to our economy. It shapes our cities, enhances their profile, encourages investment and creates jobs. And so it follows that culture should...
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“The Greater Raleigh Convention and Visitors Bureau (GRCVB) reported today that the Monet in Normandy exhibition at the North Carolina Museum of Art injected almost $24.3 million dollars in tourism revenue into the Wake County economy – more than double the initial projection of $12 million and some 2.5...
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Banking on Culture is an innovative action research project set up to investigate and stimulate new sources of financial investment for the cultural sector in Europe. The project has worked with partners in Italy, the Netherlands, Ireland, Greece, Belgium, Portugal and the UK, testing a range of new financial...
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Is this the future of the trade in cultural goods? …“Poor people are very willing to use cell phones as a basis for moving money around. In places like the Congo, cell phones are being used to transfer money around the country, completing circumventing the banking system as well...
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The creative economy movement started in the UK in 1994. Follow the links to understand how national cultural policy became creative industry policy and how it's now changing the world.