Welcome to The Hub International. This is a Website celebrating the intellectual developments of humanity without borders!

“It is all a dream – a grotesque and foolish dream. Nothing exists but you. And you are but a thought – a vagrant thought, a useless thought, a homeless thought, wandering forlorn among the empty eternities!’ (Satan explaining to Theodore the nature of the universe.)” — Mark Twain

THIS WEBSITE is not a Public Forum or Blog, all comments should be restricted to educational dialogue.

Audience members are invited to submit freely invited commentary or short articles reacting to the ideas presented on this Website. Think of it as an international Chalkboard. Commentary may be presented in any chosen language, with or without translation.

Internet Linking to Internet resources is preferred over actual content. If you do use content, restrict usage to the fair use length guidelines and include both the attribution and source. All content violating fair use guidelines will be deleted, and multiple violations will result in banning the user.

An invited commentary is a short article that describes an author’s personal experience of a specific topic.

Unlike a review article, the author gives their own opinions and perspectives. It typically addresses a current, hot and often controversial subject. It may take two formats, namely, provide an expert or a non-expert author’s personal views of and insight into a current hot topic. Individual authors may educate, enlighten and add balance to another idea being commented upon, with the addition of the author’s own perspective, while providing citations, if applicable.

No forum will be maintained or moderation of content similar to a forum will exist here. All content here is for personal use, educating myself, and all citations will be clearly shown and Educational Fair Use will be followed.

COPYRIGHT ©️

It may be for losers, but we observe Copyright.

Educational Fair Use, A short Guide follows below. It is not legal advice and posting plagiarism as commentary or spam is strictly prohibited on TheHub.International Website.

Use here should always be for instruction, not for commercial, entertainment, or reward uses.

All pages and comments here will contain copyright information and/or attribution.

If you choose to add a comment, following Copyright ©️ Law is a must. Researching Copyright Law is up to the readers and any commentary can use some of the following guidelines below while posting to the Chalkboard.

Thank you for your attention, good luck.

Modern Dance Example Below.

Boston Center for the Arts

Commenters must post:

No more than one poem, article, story, or essay, or two excerpts, may be copied from a single author, no more than three copies may be made from the same collective work or periodical issue, and no more than nine copies in total, not counting “current news” items, may be made within a single post without permission from the Copyright ©️ holder.

Don’t create anthologies, compilations, or collective works from multiple sources, either all at once or in installments.

Don’t copy “consumable” items, such as lab worksheets, standardized tests, workbooks, etc.

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Some Applicable Fair Use Length Guidelines:

• Printed Material Poems Up to 250 words.
• Articles, Stories, Essays < 2,500 words Entire article, story, or essay.
• Books Up to 10% or 1,000 words, whichever is fewer, but can use at least 500 words.
• Charts, Pictures, Illustrations, Cartoons 1 per book or periodical issue.
• Picture Books (e.g. Children’s Books) Up to 2 pages.
• Sheet Music Up to 10%, but less than a complete section, movement, or aria.
• Illustrations, Pictures Individual Works Up to 5 images per artist/photographer.
• Collections Up to 10% or 15 images, whichever is fewer.
• For Educational Presentation or Project Up to 10% or 3 minutes, whichever is shorter.
• Music/Audio Classroom Portal Listening Allowed for educational purposes.
• For Presentation or Project Up to 10% or 30 seconds, whichever is shorter.
• Television Broadcast TV (ABC, PBS, etc.) Allowed for educational purposes, short clips only, some may require permission depending on content and length.
• Cable (CNN, HBO, etc.) Generally requires permission.

UBU WEB

UBU WEB Home Page

A Masterful Example of Online Content

Founded in 1996, UbuWeb is a pirate shadow library consisting of hundreds of thousands of freely downloadable avant-garde artifacts. By the letter of the law, the site is questionable; we openly violate copyright norms and almost never ask for permission. Most everything on the site is pilfered, ripped, and swiped from other places, then reposted. We’ve never been sued—never even come close. UbuWeb functions on no money—we don’t take it, we don’t pay it, we don’t touch it; you’ll never find an advertisement, a logo, or a donation box. We’ve never applied for a grant or accepted a sponsorship; we remain happily unaffiliated, keeping us free and clean, allowing us to do what we want to do, the way we want to do it. Most important, UbuWeb has always been and will always be free and open to all: there are no memberships or passwords required. All labor is volunteered; our server space and bandwidth are donated by a like minded group of intellectual custodians who believe in free access to knowledge. A gift economy of plentitude with a strong emphasis on global education, UbuWeb is visited daily by tens of thousands of people from every continent. We’re on numerous syllabuses, ranging from those for kindergarteners studying pattern poetry to those for postgraduates listening to hours of Jacques Lacan’s Séminaires. When the site goes down from time to time, as most sites do, we’re inundated by emails from panicked faculty wondering how they are going to teach their courses that week.

The site is filled with the detritus and ephemera of great artists better known for other things—the music of Jean Dubuffet, the poetry of Dan Graham, the hip-hop of Jean-Michel Basquiat, the punk rock of Martin Kippenberger, the films of John Lennon, the radio plays of Ulrike Meinhof, the symphonies of Hanne Darboven, the country music of Julian Schnabel—most of which were originally put out in tiny editions, were critically ignored, and quickly vanished. However, the web provides the perfect place to restage these works. With video, sound, and text remaining more faithful to the original experience than, say, painting or sculpture, Ubu proposes a different sort of revisionist art history based on the peripheries of artistic production rather than on the perceived, hyped, or market-based center.