Brand Adidas co-opts brand Art Basel; Brand Art Basel returns fire: [Adidas] has been unjustly enriched through its unauthorized infringement of the ART BASEL mark [. ART BASEL is] suffering irreparable and indivisible injury and harm as a result of [Adidas’] unauthorized and wrongful use of the ART BASEL mark More at The Fashion Law.
How can we reverse the fortune of the abandoned industrial centre? Wayne Hemingway on the value of creativity: To some it might seem misguided to use creativity as a tool for social change. But when we really think hard about the history and current challenges of these post-industrial places, it’s absolutely the right approach. Each [Creative…
Like an oiled boomerang, Richard Florida returns: “I got wrong that the creative class could magically restore our cities, become a new middle class like my father’s, and we were going to live happily forever after,” he said. “I could not have anticipated among all this urban growth and revival that there was a dark…
In 2002, Chin-Tao Wu wrote, Since 1990, the regular rehanging of the Tate Gallery collection […] has been sponsored by BP. For around £150,000 a year, a sum which can buy only two-and-a-half minutes’ commercial advertising on prime-time television in 1990, the BP logo appears all year round on the Tate’s large banners advertising the…
Opaque endorsements and intellectual property theft? With online friends like these… …or rather ‘How YouTubers really make their millions’ at the New Statesman.
It’s January, so it must be time for the annual celebration of the value of the UK’s creative industries. The UK’s creative industries are now worth a record £84.1 billion to the UK economy, figures published today reveal. British films, music, video games, crafts and publishing are taking a lead role in driving the UK’s…
Every time Disney’s copyright on Mickey Mouse is about to expire, the law magically changes. Mickey’s expiration date has been nudged forward from 1984 to 2003 to 2023 – a copyright term of 95 years. Will copyright last for over a century by the time Mickey’s next deadline arrives? More at Priceonomics.
Does digital reproduction drive down the cost of all cultural content to zero? Are artists doomed to penury in the 21st century? Steven Johnson in the New York Times Magazine suggests not: Writers, performers, directors and even musicians report their economic fortunes to be similar to those of their counterparts 15 years ago, and in…
How to ensure enough men become soldiers? Daniel Defoe, 1704: ’tis as plain our people have no particular aversion to the war, but they are not poor enough to go abroad; ’tis poverty makes men soldiers, and drives crowds into the armies, and the difficulties to get English-men to list is, because they live in…
Are creatives replacing artists? Does it matter? Bill Deresiewicz says: When works of art become commodities and nothing else, when every endeavor becomes “creative” and everybody “a creative,” then art sinks back to craft and artists back to artisans—a word that, in its adjectival form, at least, is newly popular again. Artisanal pickles, artisanal poems:…