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Please respect copyright notice
Copyright Ethics The ethical issues surrounding the nature of intellectual property, the public policy debate over fair use of copyrighted materials in original work is again under the spotlight with the SA Copyright Amendment Bill where in the legislation’s...
Why do we buy and collect art?
Remember the otherwise miserly american oil billionaire J Paul Getty? I said otherwise because he spent millions of dollars on art! Think about the Getty Museum in Los Angeles. What motivated him? There are several theories regarding this phenomena. It dates back at...
The value of Art
What can art do when civilization itself is lost? Consider this In December 1942, an art teacher was deported to Theresienstadt. Friedl Dicker-Brandeis trained at the Bauhaus. She filled her luggage allowance (only 50 kilos) not with clothes, but with art materials....
