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A new report highlights increased private equity investment in troubled teen, foster care, and other behavioral services, alongside disturbing reports of abuse and neglect.

ST. LOUIS - The National Weather Service in St. Louis has predicted a possible ice issue for multiple days for this week and NWS meteorologist Jared Naples confirmed late Wednesday afternoon the commute on Thursday could be “treacherous” around the region. Gusty winds will continue into the night and temperatures will begin to fall after midnight Wednesday night. By mid-day Thursday, the weather is predicted to be at the freezing point. “We are concerned about the noon hour transition and on,” he said. “A freezing rain to sleet-type of mix should start to form early to mid-afternoon between noon and 3. After the sleet, there could be snow with sleet. The main question is how fast do the temps fall. The temperatures were in the 60s today around some of the region. It will take a pretty decent snow on cooler surfaces for snow to accumulate. It will likely be a slick evening commute on Thursday.” Naples stressed ice is never something a motorist

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‘I had more time than people in there who killed somebody,’ says Willie Roy Goodwin, who received the harsh sentence from the Supreme Court hopeful.

State lawmakers are using temporary budget surpluses to pass permanent tax cuts that will force cutbacks in public services and widen inequality.

Democrats said Republicans were trying to trick voters into gutting the initiative petition process.

The measure would give all state workers either a 5.5% raise or increase hourly wages to $15.

Listen to an episode about Satchel Paige on our Here’s History podcast with KDHX. St. Louis is the home of many baseball legends, players like Stan Musial, Dizzy Dean, and Bob Gibson. But there’s one legendary pitcher who had a long and storied history with the city of St. Louis, even though he never played …

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County assessor blames ‘printing challenges’ with vendor. Personal property declarations can be filed online.

But the Missouri Technology Corp.’s new strategic plan stops short of calling for the restoration of state funding.

St. Charles native Jincy Dunne will come home with a silver medal after the U.S. fell to Canada in the gold medal game.

Pat Harper of Granite City, IL joined the Real Rock Army today

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A service dog was stolen outside a funeral home in north St. Louis Thursday after it accidentally got outside, and it was caught on camera.

A TikTok account using Parkway West Middle School's logo with the account name @parkwaywestmiddleschool has been taken down for violating the platform's policies against bullying.

The Lenten season starts in March, and that means many Catholic parishes are gearing up for those fish fries. But many churches are now having to charge a lot more for those meals due to inflation.

Now a master of kung fu himself, Xueli Zhuang has mastered his new life and is now giving lessons of all kinds at the Kung Fu Art School here in St. Louis.

Auguste Rodin is without doubt one of the greatest sculptors in history. Equally without doubt, his works are now in the public domain, since he died in 1917. Unfortunately, the situation in France is a little more complicated, for reasons the artist and public domain campaigner Cosmo Wenman explains:

Shortly before his death, Rodin willed his estate to the French government, which created the Musée Rodin and assigned to it droit moral (“moral rights”) in Rodin’s oeuvre. By these rights the museum is permitted under French law to manufacture and sell a limited quantity of modern, posthumous bronze casts and represent them as “original” Rodin works. Musée Rodin earns considerable income from sales of such posthumous casts, as well as unlimited, simple reproductions.

Musée Rodin’s moral rights apply only within French jurisdictions, and only in very limited circumstances. They do not impinge on the public domain status of Rodin’s works, nor on the public’s right to freely copy them, even within France.

Wenman believes that museums, art galleries and private collectors around the world should make 3D scans of important public domain works and release them freely, thereby becoming “engines of new cultural creation”. The Musée Rodin disagrees, presumably because it is concerned that its monopoly on “original” posthumous casts might be devalued. As a result, it has been fighting for some years Wenman’s efforts to obtain the museum’s 3D scans of Rodin’s works through the courts.

Wenman has tweeted an update on his lawsuit. One piece of good news is that thanks to his legal campaign, the scans carried out for the Musée Rodin’s of two famous works – “The Kiss” and “Sleep” – are now freely available. Even better news is that Wenman has discovered the Musée Rodin has scanned its entire collection at high resolution. As he says: “These documents are of world wide interest and immeasurable artistic, academic, cultural, and commercial value. I am going after all of them, for everyone.”

It’s regrettable that some museums and galleries are still resisting these attempts to liberate public domain works. When those who are supposedly the guardians of society’s cultural patrimony are fighting to stop people from having full and free access to it, it’s clear that copyright’s poison, based on ownership and exclusion, has entered deep into their souls.

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Originally published to the Walled Culture site.

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