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Tate Modern fan gets the iconic building inked

Published on May 9th, 2013 | by Henry Fry

21-year-old UAL employee Niamh Coghlan took fan frenzy to another level, when she decided to get a memento of her favourite gallery, Tate Modern, etched onto her skin. Spanning over a foot in grey and black ... Read More →

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Storing your data in the cloud: is it safe?

Published on May 9th, 2013 | by Naz K Rasmussen

Did you wake up this morning and think: I want more technology in my life? Probably not. Yet, it is estimated that by the end of 2013 online gadgets will outnumber humans... Read More →

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Everything you should know about copyright

Published on May 9th, 2013 | by Zoha Tapia

Copying in creative industries is a big business. And with everyone promoting and publishing their work online, it’s easy for fraudsters to reproduce anyone’s designs... Read More →

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Public Facebook posts to become everlasting

Published on May 9th, 2013 | by Aimee Meade

Paris Brown became the prime example of how your tweets can get you into trouble last month. The 17-year-old resigned from her position as Youth Police Commissioner because of offensive tweets she posted three years ago... Read More →

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Hard to shake off the copyright as videos goes viral

Published on May 9th, 2013 | by Henry Fry

It seems as if everyone in the western world has thrust, jiggled and wobbled to the biggest viral video hit since PSY’s Gangnam Style – the Harlem Shake... Read More →

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Meow with your coffee? Kitty cafe to open this month

Published on May 9th, 2013 | by Cecilia Sundström

A cat café is opening in East London to soften up Londoners after a cat lover raised £100,000 from the public to make the controversial project happen... Read More →

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LCC student finds peace and friends with Islam

Published on May 9th, 2013 | by Clare Hiles

Despite continuing controversial media coverage, more and more people – including UAL students – are becoming Muslims, making theirs the second-largest religion in Britain. Arts London News asks why they are converting. ... Read More →

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Students bare all to pay rising tuition fees

Published on May 9th, 2013 | by Aimee Meade and Oxana Adrienko

With tuition fees at a record high, students are turning to controversial ways to fund their degrees. Arts London News has met with two students who have found alternative ways of funding their degrees... Read More →

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Creative commons or creative copycat?

Published on May 9th, 2013 | by Chloe Ferguson

Free copyright licensing programme Creative Commons recently turned ten years old and is a mandate that co-founder Lawrence Lessig considers particularly important for students... Read More →

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When every citizen is a reporter

Published on May 9th, 2013 | by Kyla Mandel

With more than 9,000 tweets per second worldwide, Twitter is a gold-mine of information. Most tweets might seem meaningless to larger conversations on current events but this can change in an instant, if you’re caught in ... Read More →