EDITORIAL
Art is not a stockpile
Listening to a work, opening an archive, using data: why we should distinguish more carefully between the things we are entitled to ask of art.
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The Bundestag Committee on Culture and Media will discuss the book trade and publishing industry on 4 November. The discussion raises a fundamental question: what can cultural policy protect — and at what point would it be propping up business models or intervening in the freedom of the market?
READ THE BACKGROUNDListening to a work, opening an archive, using data: why we should distinguish more carefully between the things we are entitled to ask of art.
→The federal and state governments’ paper promises sovereignty over cultural data and fair participation. How this will work in practice remains largely unclear.
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