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Mon, Feb 1st 2021 3:37pm — Mike Masnick A few days ago, a friend asked if Id ever heard of the "Digital Creators Coalition," an apparently new group that claimed to be representing independent artists. I was unfamiliar with it, and its website provided basically no information about who was actually behind it, beyond this vague statement on its "who we are" page: The Digital Creators Coalition (DCC) is a group of associations, companies and organizations that represent individual creators, in...

At the only textile mill of its kind in the Highlands, heritage looms have been working hard to disrupt the centuries old face of tartan. The process of producing the cloth is the same as it’s always been; the clatter of the looms as the pattern takes shape, the nimble fingers of the weaver, eyes fixed on the spinning threads, the cogs, chains and shuttles. But while the task at hand is rooted in the past, the tartans which roll from the Prickly Thistle mill are firmly in the present; b...

“Meaningful criminal penalties” for piracy, not for crushing a baby’s skull. Mon Dec 28, 2020 Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism. When George Gascon ran for DA of Los Angeles County on a platform of protecting criminals from cops, Hollywood money put him over the top. Once Gascon got into office, he began dismantling protection for victims of violent...

Sean Bullick, managing director of Make It York (top) and businessman Phil Pinder A LEADING city centre businessman has launched a petition calling for the citys tourism and marketing organisation Make It York to be wound up. Phil Pinder, head of York Retail Forum, set up the petition after Make It York asked for a taxpayer-funded bailout to keep it afloat after being “decimated” by the pandemic. A council report has revealed that if the council does not step in, Make It York (MIY) an...