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Bands may soon need a certificate of humanity
A proposed accreditation scheme would let performers prove a record was made by people. The hard part, according to those drafting it, is defining which people and how much of them.
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September 2026
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Returned artefacts may come home without their scans
A European museum could complete a restitution and keep the 3D scan it made the week before shipping. The object would travel. The file would stay, licensed by the institution that gave the object back.
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Museums may soon rent you the ninety percent nobody sees
A national collection working from a frozen grant could open its storerooms to monthly subscribers. The package would include a humidity sensor, an insurance excess, and a waiting list that forms for the basement rather than the galleries.
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Dead performers may soon have a touring schedule
An estate management firm's three-year operating plan would put an artist who died in the 2020s into four residencies, three hundred and twelve dates and a scheduled August break. The rehearsal blocks would be real. The rest-day clause would be inherited from his own contracts.
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Your household may need to hit a European content quota
A regulatory option under discussion would move the European-works quota from the catalogue to the sofa. Services would keep offering the films. Viewers would be required to watch them.
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One actor may soon dub every language you watch in
A localisation plan under discussion at a streaming service would license one lead actor's cloned voice for thirty language tracks. The dubbing actor who has voiced him in Hungarian for nineteen years would be offered a credit as a consultant on the accent.
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