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This is a long post that sketches a system in which we can have about the right amount of digital goods at the right price, and pay the people who make them properly. IP engineers, lawyers, and economists, have at it: time to stop rearranging deck chairs and steer the ship. The central underappreciated insight [...]
Archive for the ‘Arts and Cultural Policy’ Category
December 13th, 2012
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Brazil
Oscar Niemeyer, great Brazilian architect, died on 5 December.
October 18th, 2012
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Economics, Handbasket, world going to hell in, Journalism (Online and Otherwise), Policy briefs, Wayward press
Two significant pieces of news today: Google’s earnings (and stock price) are down, and Newsweek has given up on a paper edition.The Newsweek story is only the latest step down a path to oblivion, as the digital edition cannot survive financially either and will close down in turn. This is happening because the business models [...]
September 12th, 2012
Pottier and de Geyter, Rouget de Lisle, Woody Guthrie, and the Weavers have all come down from heaven on the same day:
July 23rd, 2012
Category: 501(c)(3), Arts and Cultural Policy, charity, Good news, Law Notes, NonProfits, Uncategorized
Although nonprofit organizations can make a big impact, they tend to have tiny or nonexistent legal teams. Even for the lucky few charities with a lawyer in-house or close by, it’s impossible for one attorney to know enough about all the different areas of law to be able to address all the organization’s needs. Fortunately, [...]
June 21st, 2012
In case people don’t get to the bottom of the long comment stream on Jon’s post, William Wulf’s resignation from the faculty at UVA has been getting a lot of attention in certain circles. I can’t imagine a better illustration of the problem the hard-headed business types on the Board of Visitors are bravely trying [...]
June 18th, 2012
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy, Commerce and its discontents, Education policy, Watching Conservatives
The world of higher education is still trying to assess the recent firing of University of Virginia President Teresa Sullivan because…well, no one really knows why. The goobledygook spewed out by the University Board of Trustees is just that. But here comes this nugget from the Washington Post’s extensive write-up of the situation: one reason [...]
May 30th, 2012
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy
Sad news this morning: Doc Watson is dead at 89. For those of you who have been bluegrass-deprived all your sorry, empty lives, here’s a sample: And here’s some plain and fancy flat-picking:
May 20th, 2012
Category: Arts and Cultural Policy
I just don’t *get* Johnny Carson, Marilyn Monroe, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, horror movies or car racing.