Last year the Dutch state withdrew a large part of the public funding programs for culture they have which generated big protests in the cultural community. In Sweden we have very similar debates - the minister of culture, Lena Adehlson-Liljeroth, wants to remove state support and public funding of culture because she believes culture can be "ordered" and "produced on order".
What I hear about Creative Europe is that the merging of these existing cultural support programs will make the programs even less accessible to small, independent agents in the cultural sector (that is, contrary to the Commission's own goals which say accessibility is the main problem which needs to be addressed) and more accessible to large agents that have better abilities to fulfill the administrative capacity requirements of large programs.
Neither of those debates are really inside the copyright context, but it's in the context of what we imagine culture to be: a consumer good or an expression of different streamings in society?
Last year the Dutch state withdrew a large part of the public funding programs for culture they have which generated big protests in the cultural community. In Sweden we have very similar debates - the minister of culture, Lena Adehlson-Liljeroth, wants to remove state support and public funding of culture because she believes culture can be "ordered" and "produced on order".
What I hear about Creative Europe is that the merging of these existing cultural support programs will make the programs even less accessible to small, independent agents in the cultural sector (that is, contrary to the Commission's own goals which say accessibility is the main problem which needs to be addressed) and more accessible to large agents that have better abilities to fulfill the administrative capacity requirements of large programs.
Neither of those debates are really inside the copyright context, but it's in the context of what we imagine culture to be: a consumer good or an expression of different streamings in society?