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...stiff: up to four years in prison and a $15,000 fine for anyone caught selling, distributing, producing and importing illegal copyright-protected goods, plus a second system of even heftier fines. This year, Italian police have arrested 1,329 people for music-copyright violation alone, says Luca Vespignani, a music anti-piracy official who works for the International Federation of the Phonographic Industry. But all too often, software providers say, pirates get off too easily. In March of 1998, Danish police conducted a raid against a piracy ring which had produced 125,000 cd-roms containing counterfeited software with...
Almost immediately, artists began drafting manifestoes denouncing the show as reactionary. Half the invited big names, including Painters Giorgio Morandi, Massimo Campigli, Renzo Vespignani and Sculptor Marino Marini, flatly refused to exhibit, and 50 of them dispatched a violently worded protest. Their big objection: the Quadriennale, traditionally a show of contemporary art, was devoting entirely too much space to the works of the dead. Countered exhibit officials: "After so much modern art, the visitor needs a hall or two in which to rest. To reproach us for this is like reproaching an exhibition for having...
Esso judges divided the $1,500 first prize between Franco Gentilini, 42, who did a lively brown and green oil of a refinery (see cut), and Renzo Vespignani, 26, a onetime pupil of Gentilini's, who painted a striking night-time scene of a smoke-shrouded refinery...
...Vespignani, a card-carrying Communist, has no scruples about taking money from U.S. capitalists. "After all," said he, "every painting is a kind of record, a statement that something exists. These oil refineries exist. And anyway, there was nothing in my painting that said 'Go out and buy Esso gasoline...
Like his better-known friend Vespignani, Muccini is a working Communist, but he does not paint to propagandize. "I want an art which is tied to life," he says. "At the same time I don't want to make it polemic. My pictures have a social content, not a political one." Muccini has painted many Christs, never a Stalin...