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Bill Ivey on ‘Fair Use,’ Variety

Wednesday, September 29th, 2010

Hollywood is united in standing up to the proliferation of piracy, but there’s an area of copyright law that leaves the industry perpetually perplexed.

It’s the concept of “fair use,” the protection from infringement claims for certain unauthorized uses of copyrighted material, whether they be clips pulled from news broadcasts for a documentary, fleeting images used in a musicvideo or even paragraphs from a book quoted in a blog. More…


Bill Ivey Podcast: Expressive Lives at Demos, UK

Friday, September 17th, 2010

Bill Ivey’s idea of expressive Life was the cornerstone of a Demos conference on Expressive Life. In this podcast Bill Ivey discusses the idea and importance of creative practice, expression, heritage and democracy. Bill Ivey on Expressive Life


Bill Ivey Videocast: Vail Symposium on TV 8, Vail, CO

Friday, September 17th, 2010

Interview with Bill Ivey on TV 8, Good Morning Vail, March 9, 2010


Bill Ivey Videocast: The Future of the Arts In America

Friday, September 17th, 2010

At the Americans for the Arts annual convention in Baltimore, MD, Bill Ivey discusses the future of non-profit arts, and its relation to the larger art sector. The Future of the Arts In America from Americans for the Arts on Vimeo.


Bill Ivey on Expressive Life, RSA Journal

Friday, September 17th, 2010

It is all too true that, in valuing art as a contributor to quality of life, arts advocates have been ‘anecdote-rich and evidence-poor’. This weakness is exacerbated by the fact that we are often only arguing on behalf of art galleries or orchestras, rather than advancing a broad engagement with cultural heritage and personal creative More…


Bill Ivey in National Arts Index, Artsusa

Friday, September 17th, 2010

Don’t let anybody tell you otherwise, the National Arts Index is a real game changer. By widening the frame to look at music royalties, movie screens, and personal creative practice, Americans for the Arts has basically said to the nonprofit fine arts, “You’re now one of many; part of a sector but not the be-all More…


Bill Ivey featured for concept of expressive life, Artsjournal

Wednesday, September 15th, 2010

17 luminaries in the arts community blog on Bill’s concept of expressive life. Artsjournal.com January 23 – 30, 2010 Read the full article: Expressive Lives


Bill Ivey on a Cultural EPA, Clyde Fitch Report

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

Former National Endowment for the Arts chair Bill Ivey, suggests that the U.S. urgently needs a government-funded “cultural EPA” to protect the nation’s cultural assets.

Such an agency, Ivey says, will act as a bulwark against the greedy conglomerate interests who do own and control much in the way of the nation’s cultural assets. More…


Bill Ivey on Cultural Security, Boston Globe

Sunday, July 25th, 2010

In 2000, two years before he died, the legendary television comic Milton Berle sued NBC for losing track of 130 film reels of his early shows. A few years later, the Supreme Court upheld the Sonny Bono Copyright Act, extending copyright terms to 70 years past the death of the author, or 95 years from the date of first publication. And in the last decade and a half, the ownership of the nation’s commercial radio stations has become more concentrated, with the number of owners decreasing by 40 percent even as the number of total stations has grown.

These may seem like unrelated developments. But to Bill Ivey, they’re part of the same story: American culture is being taken over by powerful private forces and, as a result, fenced off from public use. More…


Bill Ivey, Expressive Life and the Public Interest, Arts Journal

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Late in my tenure as NEA chairman I awakened to the the truth that copyright extension, the DMCA, the demise of the USIA, and the 1996 Telecom Act had profoundly reshaped our cultural system, and no one from the “arts community” had been engaged in the runnup to these legislative, regulatory, and administrative transformations.  What More…