“In particular, many groups are concerned about provisions dealing with digital locks or technical means of “copy protection.” Bill C-32 would have made it illegal to break or circumvent digital locks for any reason, even to exercise other rights under the Copyright Act.”
Tag: 09.28.11
Swiss Website Asks Theaters To Pay To Be Reviewed
TheaterKritik.ch “plans to fund itself by having smaller theatres take out subscriptions to be reviewed. But this won’t be a matter of buying a favourable opinion. Oh no. For their money, the subscribing theatre will get two professional critics attending, who will then record a podcast discussing the show’s merits or otherwise.”
A Video Collage That’s A Timepiece
“In his profoundly captivating video work The Clock, … [the] thousands of shots he has spliced together from the history of cinema depict little else but scenes of characters checking the time, fretting about it, or surrounded by bell towers or digital clock radios that ground the action on the screen within the cycle of a fictive day and night.”
Patti LuPone On Broadway Singing Today
“When I see musicals in New York today, I usually don’t know if I’m watching American Idol or a Broadway performance. It should be as precise as an operatic aria.”
L.A.’s Best Public Architecture Of The Decade
Christopher Hawthorne offers his top five choices.
Bulgarians Argue Over Communist-Era ‘Monuments To Socialism’
“On June 18, Bulgaria’s capital awoke to find the statues in a monument to the Soviet armed forces brightly spray-painted as Superman, Ronald McDonald, Santa Claus, Captain America and The Joker. The characters, according to graffiti the pranksters left at the base of the monument, were now ‘in step with the times’.”
Buffalo Philharmonic Players Accept Five-Year Contract
“The Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra’s musicians and management today signed a five-year contract, the longest in anyone’s memory, a pact that puts the BPO on a sure footing to meet challenges ahead.”
Symphony Silicon Valley’s Success Story
Founded ten years ago in the wake of the San Jose Symphony’s demise, the orchestra “has gone from start-up to brand name in a down economy, digging into the South Bay arts scene … Outside San Francisco, Symphony Silicon Valley is now the Bay Area’s largest employer of classical musicians.”
Dancers And Drug Addicts (This Is Not About The Royal Danish Ballet)
“There are echoes of Billy Elliot in the way John Horton describes his move into ballet. Yet one major difference casts the fiction and fact wide apart; John’s journey to the stage started with a battle against severe drug addiction. He is one of several former addicts performing with Chester’s Fallen Angels Dance Theatre.”
Warning: The Arts Can’t Survive Only On The Super-Comitted
The arts sector cannot rely on “traditional culture vultures” and highly educated and affluent city-dwellers alone as audiences for the future, Arts Council England’s director of public engagement has warned.