Management benchmarks of cultural policy
As public policy, cultural policy focuses on providing conditions for free and undisturbed exercise of cultural rights: right to culture and information, right to cultural identity, right of intellectual property protection, right of participation in cultural life, etc.Cultural rights are specified as a distinct class in the catalogue of international principles regarding culture created by The Cultural Diversity Network, consisting of ministers in charge from many countries such as: cultural heritage preservation, free movement of works and creators, dialogue between cultures, diversity promotion, etc.In this respect, it defines also “the intervention areas” along with actions to be taken, so that each stage of cultural policy, understood as a process of continuous construction, should gain more value. Therefore, as public policy, cultural policy has an undisputed impact on urban/rural areas/territories, at least according to the authorities’ intention to correct some discrepances as regards the number and location of cultural services in the community area, their equipping, easy access of inhabitants to cultural institutions, the density and representativity of the cultural life itself.
Urban Regeneration and More Opportunities for Artistic Expression and Cultural Consumption
Abstract Considered a set of artistic creations and events, cultural and creative industries, patrimony goods and tourist services, culture is not only an element of urban life framework, but also a dimension of sustainable development policy. At the same time, it is also the target of all urban revival strategies (X. Greffe, S. Pflieger). Fulfilling the culture functions depends on the local actors’ ability to manage the negative effects of globalisation and world economic crisis on urban development, as well as the existing tensions in towns and cities. Also, “culture territorialisation” takes place along with territory resizing – local entities are stimulated to set “vanguard” cultural policies and assume “the construction, the development, the maintenance and the management of cultural facilities”. The territory reform is one aspect of urban regeneration, which implies a set of strategies aiming at: renewing the economic base of towns and cities, redefining their image, rehabilitating city equipment, achieving the reconversion of deserted areas, raising the quality of urban dwellers’ life, ensuring their integration into a multifunctional context. The paper clarifies these aspects by research and a case study in the national domain.
No Trespassing: Authorship, Intellectual Property Rights, and the Boundaries of Globalization
In this scholarly yet highly accessible work, Eva Hemmungs Wirten traces three main themes within the scope of cultural ownership: authorship as one of the basic features of print culture, the use of intellectual property rights as a privileged instrument of control, and finally globalization as a pre-condition under which both operate. Underwritten by rapid technological change and increased global interdependence, intellectual property rights are designed to protect a production that is no longer industrial, but informational. No Trespassing tells the story of a century of profound change in cultural ownership. It begins with late nineteenth-century Europe, exploring cultural ownership in a number of settings across both spatial and temporal divides, and concludes in today's global, knowledge-based society. Wirten takes an interdisciplinary and international approach, using a wide array of material from court cases to novels for her purposes. From Victor Hugo and the 1886 Berne Convention, to the translation of Peter Hoeg?s bestseller Smilla's Sense of Snow, Wirten charts a history of Intellectual property rights and regulations. She addresses the relationship between author and translator, looks at the challenges to intellectual property by the arrival of the photocopier, takes into account the media conglomerate's search for content as a key asset since the 1960s, and considers how a Western legal framework interacts with attempts to protect traditional knowledge and folklore. No Trespassing is essential reading for all who care about culture and the future regulatory structures of access to it.