Month: November 2010

For the series on “Women leaders in art and science” wieninternational.at spoke this week with Beatrix Patzak, director of the Federal Pathologic-Anatomical Museum in Vienna. The woman who reigns over about 50,000 anatomical and pathological specimens reported from her workplace in the so-called Narrenturm (Madhouse Tower) about her first activities at the museum, her everyday … Read more

Part of the hesitation on the Beatles’ part may have been that the band have always been heavily protective of their music, keen never to devalue the brand by giving away their songs too cheaply: when the disruptive effects of the internet were first felt within the music industry, one common response was to start … Read more

In principle, to be cool means to remain calm even under stress. But this doesn’t explain why there is now a global culture of cool. What is cool, and why is it so cool to be cool? The aesthetics of cool developed mainly as a behavioral attitude practiced by black men in the United States … Read more

Aside from illustrating some of the glaring differences between jurisdictions when approaching copyright protection and infringement, the trial illustrates, perhaps more significantly, the problem of balancing an artist’s rights of authorship (as inherited by their estate) against the freedom of expression of museum curators and other creators; in this case, photographers. Link