International auction of the "Euskara" Basque typefaces

Author: Hinrich Sachs
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Bilbao, 2001

2001. A public auction of the rights to the "Euskara" Basque typesets and fourteen accompanying computer programs. Bilbao

The public auction of the rights to the "Euskara" Basque typesets and fourteen accompanying computer programs was intended as a debate (on a real, political and social scale) into thorny contemporary conceptions such as the sale, possession, use and control of intangible cultural assets.

Produced by consonni and Arteleku with the collaboration of Sala Moyua de Brancas and the support of the Provincial Government of Bizkaia, the Basque Government - Arts Department, the Provincial Government of Gipuzkoa, AFAA, IFA, Institut Français, Bilbao, VEGAP, Fundación Arte y Derecho.