Worth a Look

Here are a few posts from last week's Greenpage that might be worth your time...

The 1/52 Project Reveals Twelve 2025 Early Career Designer Recipients

www.broadwayworld.com: The 1/52 Project, the financial grant program founded by Tony Award-winning set designer Beowulf Boritt, revealed the twelve early-career designer recipients selected for the 2025 cycle to benefit from $165,000.00 in grants.

 

These Theatre Kids Won the Fight Against Proposed Anti-Arts Measures at an Arizona School Board Meeting

Playbill: Arts educators and advocates successfully killed a proposed move in Arizona's Peoria Unified school district to bar arts educators from renewing memberships in their professional associations, including but not limited to the Educational Theatre Association, National Association for Music Education, National Dance Education Organization, and National Art Education Association.

 

Judge: Anthropic’s $1.5B settlement is being shoved “down the throat of authors”

Ars Technica: At a hearing Monday, US District Judge William Alsup blasted a proposed $1.5 billion settlement over Anthropic's rampant piracy of books to train AI. The proposed settlement comes in a case where Anthropic could have owed more than $1 trillion in damages after Alsup certified a class that included up to 7 million claimants whose works were illegally downloaded by the AI company.

 

Oklahoma AG on the First Amendment and Drag Shows

Reason.com: Such drag shows are protected unless they fit within the (fairly narrow) category of obscenity, which is limited to certain material that depicts sexual conduct (not just cross-dressing).

 

Welcome to the Creator Revolution

Guest Column - TheWrap: When a single YouTube video commands more views than a blockbuster premiere, when a TikTok Creator can launch a global trend overnight and when communities once overlooked by Hollywood are finding their voices through creators, it’s clear that a new level of opportunity for the entertainment industry has been unlocked. Creators are expanding the industry’s reach and helping to reshape its future (literally!), and the impact they are having is undeniable and transformative.