Joost Smiers is professor emeritus of Political Science of the Arts, research fellow in the Research Group Arts and Economics at the Utrecht School of the Arts in the Netherlands. He works on decision‐making in cultural matters worldwide, on new visions on copyright and the public domain, on freedom of expression versus responsibility, on cultural competition policy, on the income of artists and their entrepreneurs, on European cultural policy, on UNESCO’s Convention on Cultural Diversity, and on cultural identities.