Have a look at the latest British initiative:
What is the Creative Economy Programme?
“The Creative Economy Programme is the first step in achieving our goal of making the UK the world’s creative hub. The Programme is centered around seven issues that are the key drivers of productivity in the creative industries. We have created groups for […]

On Saturday, 1 April the City of Amsterdam will receive a unique present. (Let’s assume it’s not a joke.) The Amsterdam Creativity Exchange (ACX) has decided to give the Dutch capital ‘an Alderman for Creativity’. The ACX was established last year and acts as a platform where policy makers, creative enterprises and artists can meet. […]

Updated: 17:00
The P2P Workshop has closed
Creative Industries and technology are growing further towards each other in Amsterdam today. Researchers from Delft University of Technology just presented the newest P2P-software, called Tribler. Tribler is fully compatible with BitTorrent, but includes a number of features unique to P2P-software. In particular Tribler builds on top of social networks. […]

CREATIVE COMMONS LICENSES UPHELD IN DUTCH COURT
Submitted by Mia Garlick on 2006-03-16.
San Francisco, USA, & Amsterdam, The Netherlands, March 15, 2006
The first known court decision involving a Creative Commons license was handed down on March 9, 2006 by the District Court of Amsterdam. The case confirmed that the conditions of a Creative Commons license automatically […]

Creative industries also rank high on the agenda in Jamaica. However, it should come as no surprise that creative industries in the Carribean region are not the main worry of politicians and policy makers. Even when keeping in mind that (as Miranda La Rose observes in Stabroek News) “in the Jamaican economy cultural artist Sean […]

Yesterday the verdict was published in the Dutch case of Curry vs. Weekend. It is a rather long text, but for those of you who can read Dutch, you’ll find the full text here.
What happened? Weekend (a Dutch tabloid) had taken taken images from Adam Curry’s Flickr.com page and used them to liven up […]

KL travelled to Vienna this week as Creative industries rank high on the top-European political agenda. In the opening address at the ‘Austrian Presidency Expert Seminar: Content for competitiveness’ Neelie Kroes (Member of the European Commission in charge of Competition Policy) argued that
“The content industry is ever more in the vanguard of the digital […]