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Copyright, which was initially introduced for the encouragement of authors of literary and artistic works, is not able to offer artists sufficient economic incentive to create. Royalty payments to all but the top artists are typically small and firms in the creative industries are typically large, making for a very...
The potential growth of the Indigenous creative industries has attracted government funding, cultural tourists and arts managers with a strong interest in cultural democracy and, more recently, an interest in business models for these artists. This paper documents the case of Arilla Paper, a creative enterprise in Queensland, Australia, where...
From the executive summary: ‘There are clear cultural drivers that readily explain the current American dominance of the literature on creativity. American culture has a native bias towards the new and innovative. As a culture that assumes the future should be radically different from the past, the status quo is...
The focus of this presentation is upon cultural sensitivity. Some of the topics, which have been covered, are taking a personal cultural audit, learning about culture through proverbs, folklore, legends and myths, three useful classifications of culture, some diverse cultural patterns. Culture is very crucial in an organization. This is...
Cultural Diversity, Alaska, Green Energy Cultural Diversity I read with interest your article "The Cultural Challenge" [January/February 2000] that set forth ideas on cultural diversity issues in the national parks. The bottom line was to urge the behemoth National Park Service...
Cultural diversity in the workplace provides strengths as well as challenges to businesses today. The United States is often thought of as the great melting pot where anyone from any background can assimilate into a single society. A more realistic and appropriate "Ideal" is one of multi-culturalism cultural diversity. Multi-culturalism...
Premise Unlike other countries with government organs explicitly in charge of establishing and administering cultural policy, (1) the United States has no such entity, and has no comprehensive domestic statement of cultural policy. (2) This is not to say that the United States lacks...
The Australian Copyright Council is a non-profit organization, founded in 1968. Copyright is the legal basis on which most creators earn their income. It provides reward and stimulus for creative activity, and encourages respect for the economic and cultural value of creative work. Without copyright, writers, composers and many other...
By Beth Healy, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Mar. 27--During a recent visit to San Jose, Calif., Michael Greco, a Boston lawyer, surveyed what he saw as a barren cultural landscape. "Who would want to come to Silicon Valley and...
Creativity is the trait that evolves new and unique ideas, not in practice earlier. Creative thinking is thinking out of the box. The creative process involves processing relevant ideas and information to come out with creative ideas and perspectives. The paper examines creativity and discusses the different steps of the...
Cultural competence has gained attention as a potential strategy to improve quality and eliminate racial/ethnic disparities in health care. In 2002 the interviews conducted with experts in cultural competence from managed care, government, and academe to identify their perspectives on the field. The paper presents the findings here and then...
For more than 25 years, the cultural issue has been at the forefront of American politics. Presidents Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, and George Bush (in 1988) used it to make substantial in-roads among blue-collar workers and Southern whites. In good economic times, cultural conservatism always trumped cultural liberalism. Gays, feminists,...
TORRANCE, Calif.--BUSINESS WIRE--July 21, 1997--Creative Computers, Inc. ("Creative") (Nasdaq: MALL) today announced that it has reached an agreement with Compaq Computer Corporation's (NYSE:CPQ) Commercial Division for Creative to source product directly from Compaq. Creative previously received authorization to sell products from Compaq's Commercial Division in late January of this...
Global communications has led to global economics, global manufacturing and trade. In turn, this global interdependency demands improved communication across cultural and language barriers. Recently, a group of students from around the world gathered at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to take part in RoBoCon International Design Contest...
Summary: During a Council of Europe meeting on January 17/18 in Malta, the European Ministers in charge of cultural matters decided to develop a plan to protect cultural heritage at pan-European level. This will entail initiating pan-European cooperation in the areas of technology, vocational training,...
The nature of creative development. Feinstein, Jonathan S. Stanford U. Press 2006 572 pages $34.95 Hardcover BF408 Writing from the perspective of management science, Feinstein (Yale School of Management, Yale U.) puts forth a model of the creative process that sees the...
Over the years, change management, or sweeping out the old and bringing in the new has?what else??changed. But rather than initiate something drastic like creative destruction, leaders should consider a much more modest - and perhaps more effective approach - creative recombination. As this author suggest, this can produce a...
M2 PRESSWIRE-26 September 2006-US STATE DEPARTMENT: Mrs. Laura Bush launches Global Cultural Initiative to enhance U.S. cultural diplomacyC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:25092006 Mrs. Laura Bush today announced the "Global Cultural Initiative," a major new initiative of the U.S. Department of State...
Samuel Albis is a Creative Partner and founder of The Yellow Butterfly Project, a creative shop in the ad world that targets the Hispanic market. With over 15 years experience in advertising in the United States and his native Columbia, Albis offers his expert views on what reaches (and...
Eric Steuer is the Creative Director of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization that is guiding the creative world toward a more free and balanced system of content licensing. Eric explains the value of building the "creative commons" amidst the new world order of the Internet.
