Saturday, September 27, 2008
Arts, Inc: The Corporate Control of Culture
Multinational Monitor: "Bill Ivey is the former chair of the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts, a federal cultural agency. He is the author of Arts, Inc: How Greed and Neglect Have Destroyed Our Cultural Rights (2008). Ivey serves as director of the Curb Center for Art, Enterprise and Public Policy at Vanderbilt University, an arts policy research center with offices in Nashville, Tennessee, and Washington, D.C. He also directs the Center’s program for senior government, the Arts Industries Policy Forum."
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The idea of expressive life is interesting. Articles about copyright are put out all the time, but it's nice to hear complaints from someone a bit higher up the ladder.
It's surprising to see such a corporate figure curse the right of expanded copyright protection. He offers some very valid arguments, like his example of artists using other artists work as inspiration in pieces. Expressive life should be influenced at a much larger scale outside of the arts.
That's nice and all but I couldn't care less. That guy and the US. Government are always going to be discussing and working on copyright. Is there a problem? Yes. Everyone knows. Personally though I'm not particularly worried about Casablanca which apparently "has tipped over from being a mere asset to being an important part of the nation’s cultural heritage." I'm more worried about the fact that the US. Government spends more time, money, and energy in protecting mainstream garbage which gets ripped off degraded and sold off everyday over spending money on giving artists money for movies that are different and frankly probably more important to the arts. I'm really concerned that Warner Bros. and Columbia are sweating over the few million lost over Spiderman and The Dark Knight but realisticly theres more important things.
The NEA (National Endowment of the Arts) which is what Clinton appointed Bill Ivey to be the president of used to give AFI (American Film Institute) Millions of Dollars, recently however they have received $100,000. However over in countries that care about the arts for example England, Britian gives it's film institute over $60,000,000. That was just last year's budget I'm sure it will only go up for this year.
The point of this long rant is that America is stupid. What I mean by this is that they should stop worrying about the Huge corporations losing a few million which they would just hand off to Shia Labeouf and Spielberg and worry about the artists who are working their assess off on the streets making low budget films with no support from anyone.
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