Denmark has separate state support systems for individual creative and practising artists, just as in the other Nordic countries (Finland, Norway, Sweden and Iceland). This is an exceptional dimension in the so-called Nordic Cultural Model. The role of The Danish Arts Foundation (Statens Kunstfond) is to promote Danish creative artists. By use of the arms-length principle, the Danish Arts Foundation distributes funding and grants to individual artists in the form of scholarships, bursaries, commission honoraria and prizes, purchases of works of visual art, crafts and design for depositing in state institutions and providing visual artworks in public buildings and facilities.... read more →
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If you are not happy with the results below please do another searchThe Ministry of Culture supports increased cooperation between the creative sector and the business world. Since 2002-2003, the Ministry of Culture and the Ministry of Business and Economic Affairs have cooperated closely on matters concerning the Danish cultural industry. Today this cooperation is based on a political agreement signed in 2007 by the government and the opposition parties. The "Agreement on a strengthening of the cultural economy in Denmark" introduces the two corner stones in the political initiatives in this field: The Centre for Culture and Experience Economy and The Four Experience-zones. The goal for the agreement and these two... read more →
Table 3: State cultural expenditure: by sector, in million DKK, 2011 (budget figures) Field / Domain / Sub-domain Direct expenditure (state)1 Municipalities Total % total Cultural Goods 2 261.8 3 348.3 5 610.1 33.7% Cultural Heritage 1 010.3 567.2 1 577.5 28.1% Historical Monuments3 62.4 0.0 62.4 4% Museums and zoos (and botanic gardens) 947.9 567.2 1 515.1 96% Archives 236.7 0.0 236.7 4.3% Libraries 1 014.8 2 781.1 3 795.9 67.6% Arts 2 438.4 939.7 3 378.1 20.3% Visual Arts (including architecture, arts & crafts and design) 486.2 0.0 486.2 14.4% Visual arts 85.3 0.0 85.3 17.5% Architecture, arts & crafts and design 400.9 0.0 400.9 82.5% Performing Arts 1 952.2... read more →
Table 2: Public cultural expenditure: by level of government, in million DKK, 2006, 2009 and 2011 Level of government Total 2011*** % of total Total 2009 % of total Total 2006 % of total State (federal)* 10 399.6 62.4 10 195.6 62.3 9 059.2 63.5 Regional (amter + HUR) - - - - 559.6 3.9 Municipalities (kommuner) 6 261.2 37.6 6 173.3 37.7 4 636.7 32.5 TOTAL 16 660.8 100.0 16 368.9 100.0 14 255.6 100.0 Source: The Danish Ministry of Culture / Danish Statistics.* Including TV / radio licenses (DKK 4 140 million in 2011) and receipts from the state lottery pools (tipsmidler – DKK 238.3 million in... read more →
In Denmark, protection of copyright lies in the field of cultural policy, and the current Law on Copyright dates from 27 February 2010 (jf. lovbekendtgørelse nr. 587 af 20. juni 2008 med de ændringer, der følger af § 5 i lov nr. 1404 af 27. december 2008, lov nr. 510 af 12. juni 2009 samt § 2 i lov nr. 1269 af 16. december 2009). Copyright is the responsibility of the Ministry of Culture. The Act specifies and defines the mutual rights and obligations of the author, producer and user. The Danish artists' rights protection represents the "droit d'auteur" tradition,... read more →
Neither the Ministry of Culture nor the Minister of Culture can dispense or intervene in the allocation of public funds for culture, according to the Laws of the State Arts Foundation and the Danish Arts Council. This has not been changed in recent years (see chapter 1.2.2, chapter 2.1 and chapter 4.2.1). The Danish Arts Agency (now called the Danish Agency for Culture) is an administrative unit under the auspices of the Danish Ministry of Culture (see chapter 1.2.2) and acts as the secretariat for the Danish Arts Foundation and the Danish Arts Council. The Danish Arts Foundation's role is... read more →
To sum up,the Danish debate on cultural politics has focussed on the following general topics in 2010 and 2011: how can cultural politics contribute to secure the cohesion of a society challenged with a growing number of cultural minorities, internally, and multicultural global cultural influences from the outside? The question is about sovereignty of the people and thereby the relation between the constitutional state and democracy, identity and the nation. The transformation of public cultural policy to identity policy and to cultural policy as an instrument for social cohesion has been encouraged, for instance in the new cultural strategy Culture... read more →
In two recent reports issued by the Ministry of Culture, Reach Out! and Culture for all, more attention is given to user-generated content and digital media. In Reach Out!, focus in mainly on the instrumental use of these aspects, encouraging these kind of uses to attract children and youth, and to create experiences which the public / users is ready to pay for. Hence, the focus is mainly on the quantitative side of culture, where attendance numbers and financial income is encouraged. The report is not particularly accurate on its last challenge, which is increasing quality, as it seems to... read more →
The most important Danish radio and TV stations are: Danmarks Radio (DR), which broadcasts the TV channels DR and DR 2, along with DR Update, DR K (focuses on culture, history, music and film), DR Ramasjang (for children) and DR HD (high definition and focus on young people). DR transmits the FM radio channels P1, P3 and P4, as well as regional channels and channels on digital platforms. On 1 November 2009 Denmark shifted to digital antenna TV in order to enhance picture quality, sound, TV format, and to offer better services such as improved subtitles and a sight interpreter... read more →
Danish heritage policy is being implemented and managed through the Danish National Cultural Heritage Agency which wasestablished in 2002. In this way, an integrated approach to heritage policy is being promoted. Since January 2006 (earlier for the National Museum), there has been free admission for everyone to Denmark's two biggest museums, The National Museum and The National Gallery, and for children and young people under 18 to all state and state subsidised museums. These steps have been taken to increase access, for all groups including those who are less well off and people with ethnic backgrounds other than Danish.In 2006... read more →