This report describes how my artistic project is related to several issues in the region of the Arctic Circle. The project, which began in 2023 during a textile art residency in Norway, consists of multiple works that will eventually become a large series of artworks that aim to contextualise...

The "economic" naturally meets the "cultural" because both spheres deal, differently albeit convergingly, with "values" and "valuations". Materially crafted and spiritually charged, tactile/tangible and ineffable/intangible, privately owned and collectively enjoyed, nourished currently and...

Ludwig van Beethoven, Johann Sebastian Bach, and Frédéric Chopin are household names, but few will recognize Francesca Caccini, Elisabeth Lutyens or Amy M. Beach, who are among the top-10 female composers of all time. Why are female composers overshadowed by their male counterparts? Using...

This paper assesses the impact of the pandemic crisis on self-employed income among artists resident in Germany. Using unique data from the latest available public insurance records, we show that musicians and performing artists are among the most vulnerable groups, and that writers, on average,...

How we define an artist and how we use census and survey data to study artist behaviour is a cornerstone of cultural economics. Frey and Pommerehne (1989) list eight criteria for identifying an artist, from time spent on and income derived from art-making, to reputation and recognition,...

One such case involved a group of scam artists operating on Facebook who targeted amateur investors in India. The group created a fake profile for a supposed investment guru named "John Smith," who claimed to have insider knowledge of a lucrative investment opportunity. They then used this...

Artists drive the entertainment industry with their creative work, and in some cases, there are protections for artists when it comes to their work, wealth, and autonomy. However, the area of contracts called “private law,” under which artists’ contracts fall, is lightly regulated in...

This report is the result of the work of the EU Open Method of Coordination (OMC) group of Member States' experts on 'The status and working conditions of artists and cultural and creative professionals'. The group worked in a cross-sectoral way and included experts in the field of culture as...

Art and culture are an integral part of our societies and enrich the quality of our lives in many ways. The ability of art to inspire, to connect, to innovate and to bring people from different backgrounds and cultures together is becoming increasingly recognised at EU and Member State levels -...

Art and culture are an integral part of our societies and enrich the quality of our lives in many ways. The ability of art to inspire, to connect, to innovate and to bring people from different backgrounds and cultures together is becoming increasingly recognised at EU and Member State levels -...

This report is the result of the work of the EU Open Method of Coordination (OMC) group of Member States' experts on 'The status and working conditions of artists and cultural and creative professionals'. The group worked in a cross-sectoral way and included experts in the field of culture as...

How do hip-hop songs produced from 2017 to 2023 depict and rationalize online fraud? This study examines the depiction of online fraudsters in thirty-three Nigerian hip-hop songs on nine popular streaming platforms such as Spotify, Deezer, iTunes, SoundCloud, Apple Music, and YouTube. Using a...

This paper studies the role of arts entrepreneurship training among artists. First, we present results from a new hand-collected dataset on the incidence of arts entrepreneurship across leading colleges and conservatories. We find that such entrepreneurship training is exceedingly rare and...

This EIQ paper was inspired by the headline 'British artists in a historic clean sweep of 2022's Official Top 10 singles'. British artists accounted for all the Top Ten of the end-of-year singles chart of 2022 - for the first time since the charts were published over 50 years ago. A quick glance...

What is music artist management? -- Managers in the music business : A theoretical framework -- Management work in the music business: Issues and challenges -- The ever-expanding role of music artist managers -- New models for music artist manager retention.

Introduction. Artist Management As a Mystery -- From Mainstream Management to Artist Management -- Managing the Loop : Unveiling An Artist Manager's Work -- Maintaining the Loop : Evaluating an Artist Manager's Performance -- Managing Risks : Winning the "Lottery" -- Managing Relationships : a...

"Holistically addressing the documented needs of practicing artists, this book applies contemporary business management principles to the unique circumstances of people who make their living through creative expression. Artists looking to forge a career have had to turn to either...

1. Understanding Couture and Considerations for Legal Protection -- 2. Broader Considerations: The Wider Intellectual Property Law Framework, in response to Couture as Art -- 3. 'Couture,' an Artistic Work? -- 4. Copyright for Couture -- 5. The Functionality Doctrine Rationale -- 6. Copyright...

Taylor Swift has been making music for over a decade and her growing popularity can especially be seen by the global impact her 2024 Eras Tour has sparked. Swift has been able to leverage her popularity to stand up to giants in the entertainment industry, championing various industry and...

2021 was a miraculous year for non-fungible tokens (NFTs), which led to confusion among observers of the phenomenon from both the art industry and regulatory authorities. This article provides a dispassionate analysis of the value of NFTs from an artist’s and intellectual property (IP)...

If a hypothetical investor diversifies her portfolio by investing in an index based upon the contemporary art market, has she invested in an efficient market or not? I investigate the presence of time series momentum in the market of contemporary living artists by considering a different...

Most creatives acquire professional talents by learning from others, but in most settings it is difficult to estimate the existence of long-term effects. This paper explores the transmission of skills over a period of more than seven centuries by focusing on the case of music composers. We ask...

Law Number 28 of 2014 on Copyright does not regulate Non-Fungible Tokens as a proof of ownership. The problem that will be discussed is whether the issuance of Non-Fungible Tokens without permission is a copyright infringement and what is the available legal protections for the creator. This...

Objectives: Artists and performers are generally incentivised by the ownership of their work. Their income is generated based on the related rights and neighbouring rights. However, the economics of the copyright studies has excluded the most essential link between artists and their source of...

With this paper, from the perspective of ethics at the workplace, we problematize the taken-for-granted assumptions embedded in the use of artistic freedom in creative processes. Drawing on the notion of inequality regimes (e.g. Acker, 2006) and using empirical material from a performing arts...

This paper explores the influence of working hours on artistic and cultural participation in Seoul, Korea. Using the zero-inflated negative binomial (ZINB) model, we conducted empirical research on how working time affects artistic and cultural participation and how this effect differs according...