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‘He was always voraciously watching’: Scorsese’s secret life as an obsessive VHS archivist | Martin…
In the basement of the University of Colorado Boulder’s main library, an 85-year-old stone fortress built in the Italian rural style, the archives of the school’s Rare and Distinctive Collections occupy rows of shelves as far as the eye…
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‘Selected Catastrophies’ from Sinclair Beiles’s Sacred Fix | Straight Up
“Selected Catastrophies” — subtitled “In the Cavern of the Damned” — is the fourth section of a book of poems by the incandescent South African poet Sinclair Beiles, entitled Sacred Fix. It was edited by Gerard Bellaart and…
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Generative AI Is a Crisis for Copyright Law
By Kate Crawford, Jason Schultz
Generative artificial intelligence is driving copyright into a crisis. More than a dozen copyright cases about AI were filed in the United States last…
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Dumb and dumber | Sandow
Hard to believe, but the English National Opera posted a bio of Richard Strauss, in which they said Johann Strauss was his father:
“Richard Strauss (1864-1949) was one of the most highly acclaimed composers of the 20th century. He…
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Global recorded music revenues rose 10.2% to $28.6bn in 2023, as paid subscriptions to music…
IFPI, the organization that represents the recorded music industry worldwide, has published its Global Music Report, which reports on global trade revenues for the recorded music industry in 2023.The headline stat from IFPI‘s report,…
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How Digital Twins’ Virtual Realities Will Transform The World
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Joe Zadeh is a writer based in Newcastle.
On the morning of June 24, 1993, Yale University Professor David Gelernter arrived at his office on the fifth floor of the computer science department.…
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Lost in music: why piano competitions must address the gender gap | Classical music
Just over a month ago a hard-hitting report about misogyny in music was published by the UK parliamentary women and equalities committee. The report contained personal accounts that showed not only that inequality is still pervasive in…
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Tennessee just became the first state to protect musicians and other artists against AI
NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- Tennessee Gov. Bill Lee on Thursday signed off on legislation designed to protect songwriters, performers and other music industry professionals against the potential dangers of artificial intelligence.The move makes…
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Photography Is No Longer Evidence of Anything
For weeks now, the world has been awash in conspiracy theories spurred by weird artifacts in a photographic image of the missing Princess of Wales that she eventually admitted had been edited. Some of them got pretty crazy, ranging from…
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