AGP Executive Report
Last update: 8 hours agoCultural Heritage Under Pressure: Florence’s Galleria dell’Accademia has sent a cease-and-desist to an Italian takeaway using Michelangelo’s David image to sell ice cream, arguing the cultural heritage code limits free use to study/research/cultural promotion even as EU image rights lapse 70 years after an artist’s death. Publishing & Film in Italy: Venice Film Festival announced that the live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s manga “Look Back” will screen in competition, with GKIDS handling releases in multiple territories. Open Data for Business: A guide explains how EU “open data” rules (Open Data Directive and High-Value Datasets) push member states to publish machine-readable datasets via APIs—turning free public information into competitive products. Literature Spotlight: A review asks whether Helen DeWitt is the “literary messiah” for an age of asymmetrical information, mixing correspondence and nested fiction to probe the novel’s role. Humanities & History: A new book on German counterinsurgency doctrine in the Balkans traces how wartime irregular warfare blurred into atrocity, drawing on primary sources and testimony.
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