Reading for Battle
Battle Readings is a regularly updated compilation of articles, essays, and opinion pieces relevant to the themes of the Battle of Ideas.
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Arts & Culture
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Tech and copyright – it's time to work together
Andrew Orlowski, Register, 13 July 2012
Tech and copyright – it's time to work together
Andrew Orlowski, Register, 13 July 2012
Dutch courage needed in face of classical music funding cuts
Proposed changes will put pressure on much-loved companies as the Netherlands's musical-haven status comes under threat
Tom Service, Guardian, 20 June 2012
Proposed changes will put pressure on much-loved companies as the Netherlands's musical-haven status comes under threat
Tom Service, Guardian, 20 June 2012
Behind the music: Changing copyright laws won't solve everything
Vince Cable claims changing copyright laws could bring an £8bn boost to the British economy. But even when the changes make sense, it's hard to imagine them generating so much money
Helienne Lindvall, Guardian, 19 June 2012
Vince Cable claims changing copyright laws could bring an £8bn boost to the British economy. But even when the changes make sense, it's hard to imagine them generating so much money
Helienne Lindvall, Guardian, 19 June 2012
Letter to Emily White at NPR All Songs Considered.
Fairly compensating musicians is not a problem that is up to governments and large corporations to solve. Rather, fairness for musicians is a problem that requires each of us to individually look at our own actions, values and choices and try to anticipate the consequences of our choices.
David Lowery, Trichordist, 18 June 2012
Fairly compensating musicians is not a problem that is up to governments and large corporations to solve. Rather, fairness for musicians is a problem that requires each of us to individually look at our own actions, values and choices and try to anticipate the consequences of our choices.
David Lowery, Trichordist, 18 June 2012
A loss for words
Literary prizes exist to give dog shows a good name. Most literary prizes get it mostly wrong.
Richard Flanagan, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 June 2012
Literary prizes exist to give dog shows a good name. Most literary prizes get it mostly wrong.
Richard Flanagan, Sydney Morning Herald, 16 June 2012
Photography and Protest
This issue of Photoworks magazine engages with the possibilities for photography as both a tool for the documentation of protest and as a vehicle for protest and political activism.
photoworks, 1 June 2012
This issue of Photoworks magazine engages with the possibilities for photography as both a tool for the documentation of protest and as a vehicle for protest and political activism.
photoworks, 1 June 2012
Orange is not the only fruit: why book prizes, not sponsors, matter to writers
Prizes give one novelist a chance; a chance to go on writing, to produce a body of work, to do so without financial anxiety.
Linda Grant, Guardian, 22 May 2012
Prizes give one novelist a chance; a chance to go on writing, to produce a body of work, to do so without financial anxiety.
Linda Grant, Guardian, 22 May 2012
Art for art's sake?
Can the language and tools of economics help the case for cultural sector funding? Or is culture a special case with its own rules?
Claire Donovan, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 17 May 2012
Can the language and tools of economics help the case for cultural sector funding? Or is culture a special case with its own rules?
Claire Donovan, Department for Culture, Media and Sport, 17 May 2012
Digital Photography never looked so Analogue
Amateur photography is living in the past.
Stephen Bull, frame and reference, 4 May 2012
Amateur photography is living in the past.
Stephen Bull, frame and reference, 4 May 2012
Is America still the World's Policeman?
"I loved the Battle of Ideas, which was mad, wild, and sparky. 2011 looks set to be even better."
Anthony Seldon, master, Wellington College; historian; political commentator
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