“Google and major publishers have formally called a truce in a seven-year copyright dispute over book scanning. The two sides had already been working closely since a major settlement fell apart in 2011.”
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Jailed Palestinian Director Released On Bail Following Hunger Strikes
“The co-founder of Jenin’s Freedom Theatre, a drama group active in the northern West Bank, had been detained in Jericho since 13 May following a wave of arrests by the Palestinian Authority. Charges were not brought against him for more than four months.”
Think Technology Will March Ever Forward? Look At History
“We tend to think of technological evolution as an exponential curve that starts out more-or-less flat in the early Stone Age and accelerates towards the present. But the idea that we are becoming ever more inventive may be an illusion. … In fact, over the whole of human history, we have probably lost more innovations than we now possess.”
Yet Another Filipino Mass Dance Video Becomes YouTube Sensation
“Inmates in a Philippine prison perform a mass dance routine to ‘Gangnam Style’, the song by South Korean rapper Psy that has become an internet sensation. The prisoners at Cebu provincial detention and rehabilitation centre have previously preformed a large scale dance routine of Michael Jackson’s ‘Thriller’, which has been viewed more than 50m times on YouTube.”
How Technology Is Changing How Art Is Made
“Throughout history, technology has provided artists with new tools for expression. Today, these two seemingly distinct disciplines are interlinked more than ever, with technology being a fundamental force in the development and evolution of art.”
Want To See ALL The Public Art?
It took a decade, but all 201,000 works of art owned publicly in the UK have now been photographed. Now they’ll all be put online.
Romney: I’ll End Funding For PBS
“In an exchange with President Obama on tightening the federal budget, the GOP nominee for president said that one thing he’d do to save cash is pull the plug on federal support for the Public Broadcasting Service.”
Dance Against Bullying In Schools
“The catharsis of music and movement gets at the heart of what makes these young people tick.”
Is This Man The Key To The Collapse Of The Broadway Rebecca?
“The Long Island stockbroker who has emerged as a central figure in the spectacular collapse of the Broadway musical Rebecca is the subject of an unrelated federal fraud investigation that grew out of several civil lawsuits filed in recent years.”