Policy in Print



Policy briefs, background papers and site visit reports provide support for face-to-face meetings of Congressional and agency staff, arts industry leaders, scholars, and cultural policy experts.
 

Cultural Diplomacy


Interest in public and cultural diplomacy, after a long post-Cold War decline, has surged in the last few years.   The concept of cultural diplomacy – defined most broadly as the propagation of American culture and ideals around the world – has traditionally been defined by government-sponsored broadcasting, educational exchanges, cultural programming, and information or knowledge flow.  A 21st century view of cultural diplomacy is broadly defined and and considers all the ways that images and symbols of U.S. culture and ideals are transmitted abroad.



America's Image Abroad: The UNESCO Cultural Diversity Convention and U.S. Motion Picture Exports

 

Cultural Diplomacy and the National Interest: In Search of a 21st Century Perspective

   

Media Policy and Intellectual Property


Laws and regulation around intellectual property and media consolidation are one of the most important cultural policy issues of the 21st century.  Topics of interest range broadly—from assessing piracy in developing countries to file sharing on college campuses; the viability of record labels to the market opportunities for mobile technology; the remuneration of songwriters to the success of blockbuster film studios; smashups to Youtube; Flickr to Facebook; royalties on Beatles songs to accessing our country’s most iconic photographs. 

Curb Center white papers provide insight into debate and discussion around Radio Deregulation and Consolidation and Reconsidering the Performance Right.
   


Radio Deregulation and Consolidation: What is in the Public Interest?		  

The Music Industry in Flux: Reconsidering the Performance Right


Public Policy & Expressive Life


Examining the policies and regulations that shape creative enterprise and expressive life in America.