The Manila Bulletin Online today reports about proposals to establish a special court for intellectual property violations in the Philippines. Currently, nearly 1,200 cases of IP violations are pending in court - much more than the system can handle.
See also:
Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines

According to Chinese authorities China is importing too many foreign movies relative to the number of Chinese movies that is being exported. New government regulations should help to (further) protect China’s market for cultural goods and services.
Read this article in the Asia Times.

KL has just published the final report of the Creative Capital Conference it organized in March. The report includes an analysis of the Amsterdam Agenda for Creative Capital, reviews of the plenary sessions and workshops, and an evaluation of the conference.
Click here to download to the full report in pdf-format. For printed copies please contact […]

Interesting attitude towards creative industries growth strategies in this article by Kalinga Seneviratne. Does Singapore have to dramatically revise its education system? It is Seneviratne’s opinion that
to develop creative industries like multimedia and arts, students need to develop a passion for creativity which a conformist education system cannot provide.

Looking for books and papers about culture and territorial development?
Check out the European Spatial Planning Research & Information Database.

There are officials that believe a city cannot have enough art galleries. However, local authorities in Carmel City, California, are increasingly worried by the large number of art galleries in their city. You can find out here why.

Friday afternoon. Rain is pouring here in Amsterdam, but it does not seem to affect the enthusiasm of the people that are building up the outdoor ‘Summer Camp’ stages just fifty metres from our building. It’s free music for us this afternoon, as Amsterdam gets ready for the tenth Amsterdam Pride to promote the city […]

This week China and the ASEAN signed a ‘Memorandum of Understanding’ (MoU).
The press release states that:
“The MoU, the first China has signed with a regional bloc, stipulates that the parties concerned must actively promote great awareness, understanding and appreciation of each others’ arts and culture through artistic collaboration and exchange, joint research and study, exchange […]

“More and more do arts organisations feel they have to demonstrate their financial rather than their artistic prowess as a means of obtaining funds to support their existence. Arts festivals big and small commission economic impact studies to trumpet their success in creating employment, raising local incomes and encouraging tourism; understanding their cultural impacts often […]

To find and argue that places with the highest economic growth rates are places with relatively large gay communities is one thing (meet Richard Florida). It is quite another thing to seek out neighbourhoods with a relatively high influx of gay couples because property values are likely to rise in those areas.
However, in Tampa, USA, […]