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A criminal trial underway in Sweden is testing a very American notion: that artifacts that carry a copyright should not simply be lifted or stolen - that their use requires permission and compensation. That definition of intellectual property may appear almost quaint in these days when it is easy to find...
It's an idea that's enjoying a resurgence in popularity. Last year, ahead of the Beijing Olympics when China faced renewed criticism over human rights, the British Museum staged exhibitions on the history of the Games in Shanghai and Hong Kong, sending more than 110 invaluable items, including the...
Asian literature on World War II hardly brims with sympathetic images of Japanese soldiers, and that makes Indonesian writer Sutan Takdir Alisjahbana's 1978 epic Defeat and Victory something of a cultural curiosity. The Japanese translation earned its author the Order of Sacred Treasure, but with its first English rendition...
Harvard students who hoped to hop across the pond this summer to work may find themselves staying closer to home due to unresolved visa negotiations between the United States and the United Kingdom. The U.K. Border Agency recently unveiled a new youth mobility scheme that applies to individuals between the...
It was a rare slash of candor in the annual winter policy-conference festivities - the worthy caravan of world-class bloviation that migrates from the now soiled majesty of the economic wizards at Davos to the Cold War clutch of the Munich Security Conference, to the think-tanky but heartfelt...