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28.04.2006 Copyright means, above all, the right of the author to define the terms and conditions for use of his/her work, while the license is a legal document used by the author to express those terms and conditions in a legally acceptable form. Therefore, each author can, in principle, decide that his/her work can be freely distributed or even used as public domain good. On the other hand, the contemporary practice is such that, unless the author explicitly defines the terms and conditions for use of his/her work, it is assumed that the terms would be: “All unauthorized copying, reproduction and public performance is strictly forbidden. All rights reserved”.

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27.04.2006 Con el arte como arma, quince poetas hispanoamericanos y cientos de poetas costarricenses en todas las provincias compartirán sus palabras, sus ideas y sus utopías en el V Festival Internacional de Poesía, que se realizará en diversos espacios del país del 27 de mayo al 4 de junio.

24.04.2006 Mediando más de 20 años entre un cuestionario y otro, hay un poeta, un hombre con firmeza de criterios (los dejó bien puestos en crucial circunstancia con El Necio) que se merece las credenciales que le han otorgado. Si alguien lo duda, quizás encuentre elementos sustanciales en este diálogo.

24.04.2006 Devastating storms? Harsh droughts? More diseases? Polluted air and waterways? Contaminated food? Some of the key causes are global warming and a loss of biodiversity caused by humans' excessive use and abuse of the Earth and its resources. Complex global problems all, so what's an individual to do?

22.04.2006 A ese loco a quien la muerte se le cruzó justamente en una de sus luchas, en una revuelta ciudadana y ayudando a salvar la vida de un niño...

21.04.2006 Esta nueva orquesta reunirá a experimentados músicos y músicas suramericanos para retomar y renovar la música surgida en las misiones de jesuitas en varios puntos de Sudamérica. La aparición de estas misiones provocó una fusión entre la música barroca y renacentista con la música de las poblaciones nativas de cada región.

20.04.2006 Another brick in the wall: A critical review of cultural management education in Europe, the new book by Corina Suteu, was launched today in New York, U.S., at the Columbia University - New York.

20.04.2006 Savez udruga Klubtura / Clubture je neprofitna, inkluzivna, participativna mreza organizacija, koja radi na osnazivanju nezavisnog kulturnog sektora. Glavne aktivnosti mreze usmjerene su programskom povezivanju, podizanju javne vidljivosti, poticanju organizacijskog razvoja sektora te jacanju njegova utjecaja na promjenu institucionalnog okvira u kojem djeluje.

20.04.2006 Residents of Lhasa in Tibet have stopped displaying animal skins after they found that monks were burning animal skins. Yeshi Dorje, a resident of Lhasa has said that thousands of people turned up for the skin-burning event but the Chinese authorities are preventing people from destroying the skins.

18.04.2006 OneWorld South Asia (OWSA) and Vanavil Trust launched the Tamil Community Radio on Tamil New Year’s Day, Friday 14, April 2006 with a view to building the capacity of Tamil minorities in Delhi by producing and exchanging information of local importance in the Tamil language.

18.04.2006 The European Cultural Foundation, Hivos and the Open Society Institute started a new fund for financing of NGOs in the cultural sector in Western Balkans.

18.04.2006 Change Initiatives organized a workshop on the scope for ICT-based Enterprises for Women on 2nd and 3rd March 2006 in Kolkata. Dr G.D. Gautam, Special Secretary, Department of IT, Government of West Bengal inaugurated this workshop. Also present at the occasion were President of Change Initiatives Mr Sibaji Roy, Vice President Dr Mukul Mukherjee & Workshop Convener Ms. Alokananda Rao. The entire session was presided by Director of Change Initiatives, Ms Jhumpa Ghosh Ray.

17.04.2006 The debate over the limits of freedom speech and religious dictums has re-ignited among a new demographic--viewers of the irreverent comedy South Park.

17.04.2006 Private television channels will not be enjoying a free run, if a bill being proposed by the Information and Broadcasting Ministry comes into force.

13.04.2006 Terming it as unconstitutional, the Bombay High Court on Wednesday struck down a Maharashtra government ordinance that bans dance bars in the state.

11.04.2006

11.04.2006 On March 25, the implementation of a new social programme to open the space for production of independent and non-for-profit programmes started in the former “ROG” bycicle factory in Ljubljana.

11.04.2006 U subotu, 25. marta, u napuštenoj tvornici Rog u Ljubljani počela je provedba novog društvenog programa i otvaranje prostora široj javnosti za produkciju neovisnih i neprofitnih programa.

07.04.2006 The AKCIJA Sarajevo – Cultural Development Agency invites all interested people to a public lecture and discussion. The lecture, European Cultural Policy Dilemmas: Between Local Needs and Global Challenges, will be given by Dragan Klaic, at the Media Centre Sarajevo (Kolodvorska 3, Sarajevo), on Friday, April 7, at 18:00 hours.

06.04.2006 En el corazón del Quiché, tierras ancestrales Mayas, se presentó la obra Teatral Contrahuella, la senda de los Ancestros. Drama poético, histórico, biográfico que narra sucesos acaecidos durante el conflicto armado interno, que no deben repetirse