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Copyrightuser Portal CREATe Kris Erickson, Lord Kelvin Adam Smith Fellow in Social Sciences (CREATe) College of Social Sciences With the way in which TV, movies and music are produced, distributed and consumed changed forever, questions of copyright have never been more relevant.

A study by the University of Liverpool has found that the genre of music used by universities in  adverts to promote student life strongly influences how the institution is perceived.

Arts Council England grants £87,582 to create online digital archive of Fitzwilliam Museum manuscripts The Fitzwilliam Museum has incredibly important collections of illuminated manuscripts which give a wonderful insight into Medieval life.

College of Arts Gàidhlig @ Oilthigh Ghlaschu: Gaelic at Glasgow Prof Ó Maolalaigh This article is also available in a Gaelic translation.

Music by a Jewish victim of the Nazis feared lost forever is being performed for the first time since the Holocaust after being uncovered by a University of Leeds researcher.

Launched this year as a small pilot scheme, the Community Fund considers applications for funding from Oxfordshire-based community projects.

Professor Paul Stekler recently donated his film archives to the Briscoe Center for American History, which hopes to collect the work of more filmmakers.

Despite what people might believe, television has been featuring gay and lesbian characters and focusing on issues related to the LGBT community from the early days of the medium, says Amy Villarejo, professor of performing and media arts in the College of Arts and Sciences.

A new project that will use large music collections - so called Big Data - to support music research has been launched by Queen Mary University of London, City University London, University College London and the British Library.

For Peter Randall-Page, creating a striking sculpture is not something that can be rushed. Months of preparation and planning take place before the physical work begins and, even then, it can take several more months before a piece is finished.

WHAT: " Art-in-Science: The intersection of image and research ,” a two-day exhibit of sculpture, painting, photography, origami, multi-media and digital art by scientists and artists at the University of California, Berkeley, whose works portray the artistic face of science. The free exhibit, accompanied by live music, refreshments, lectures and artist demonstrations, is presented jointly by the Energy Biosciences Institute (EBI) and Science@Cal.

21 February 2014 The songs and threatened languages of one of Australia's most prominent genres of Indigenous music, wangga , from Australia's Top End, are presented in a new book published by resear

Bach to Bach Joint library exhibit showcases trove of work by composer C.P.E., son of Johann M ozart said of Bach: "He is the father, we are the kids.

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL (02/13/2014) —The Bell Museum's exhibit, Audubon and the Art of Birds , has reopened with nearly 50 new works of art that are replacing light sensitive pieces that have been on display since October.

'Big data' projects involving Oxford academics are to receive funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) as the government seeks to strengthen the UK's position in the field.

Exploring the impact of innovation in technology during the Great War and shedding light on how people resisted the war are just two of many insights offered by new University of Leeds research.

Dr Beatriz Garcia is Head of Research at the Institute of Cultural Capital "The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympic Games will start in earnest tonight with what promises to be another grand Opening Ceremony.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow have been awarded grants to fund three major research projects to help analyse and evaluate 'big data'.

Lancaster University is leading a project which will 'unlock' many thousands of musical scores which are stored online as frozen images, opening them up to a new generation of digital-savvy musicians and researchers.

Art, turned on its ear Iconic Western works are recast to reflect racial realities generally ignored before P hotographer, curator, and arts scholar Deborah Willis , who normally hangs her beret at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University, will be in residence at Harvard this semester.

Don't miss the chance to see films that explore humankind's capacity for deception. Showing at Cambridge Arts Picturehouse  in February and March, each of the five movies screened as part of a Conspiracy and Conspiracy Theory Film Season will be introduced by an eminent speaker.

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Pictures as narrative Greenfield '87 covers origins, patterns of her work in talk with students "I was fascinated by this idea of an impoverished elite," Lauren Greenfield told a Harvard crowd last Thursday.

I t's both a dream and a nightmare scenario for anyone seeking a career on the musical stage: Stand alone in front of an acclaimed Broadway star, sing your heart out, and then await the critique.

Internationally recognised performing arts scholar Mary Luckhurst will take up a position as Professor of Creative Practice and Artistic Research at the Faculty of the Victorian College of the Arts a

The sights, sounds and spectacle of French grand opera may have helped to keep the revolutionary spirit alive in the hearts and minds of Parisian audiences, according to research by a University of Nottingham academic.

Robert Burns at the University Centre for Robert Burns Studies Celtic Connections Festival Experts on Robert Burns gathered in Glasgow for the University of Glasgow's Centre for Robert Burns Studies Conference 2014 featuring Burns research centred on the theme of 'Homecoming'.

Lakeside Arts Centre at The University of Nottingham has enabled more than 1,100 local primary and secondary school pupils to learn about and embrace art, thanks to its ' Pop Art to Britart — Modern Masters from the David Ross Collection' exhibition.

New York punk legend Richard Hell talks at Sussex about sex, drugs, rock and poetry One of the founding fathers of punk rock - and the man who inspired Malcolm McLaren in the creation of the music and the look of the Sex Pistols - is making an exclusive UK visit to the University of Sussex.

Lecturers from the department of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies (CLAS) in collaboration with Tate Liverpool , have organised a series of talks and screenings of politically engaged films from around the world.

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An exhibition of the works of James McNeill Whistler is about to embark on a tour of the US and Japan after a successful debut in the UK closes this Sunday (12 January).