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Author : Derek Miller
Release : 2018-08-16
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770–1911 by : Derek Miller
Download or read book Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770–1911 written by Derek Miller. This book was released on 2018-08-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the development of nineteenth-century performance copyright laws which shape how we define and value drama and music.
Author : Derek Miller
Release : 2013
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Book Synopsis Judicial Criticism by : Derek Miller
Download or read book Judicial Criticism written by Derek Miller. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the appearance of performing rights--the right to perform a theatrical or musical work--in nineteenth-century Anglo-American copyright law, performance became a commodity. The law, as the creator of that commodity, exercised the power to define both what performance was and how to value performance, economically and aesthetically. "Judicial Criticism: Performance and Aesthetics in Anglo-American Copyright Law, 1770-1911," explores litigation, legislation, and contemporary debates to trace the emergence of legal theories of theater and music and to document how those legal theories altered artistic and commercial practices. Through close readings of performing rights lawsuits, I interrogate the development of the performance-commodity, the abstract dramatic or musical work defined by copyright law. The appearance of performing rights shifted the discourse of performance from personal and political spheres to the economic realm. Jurists worked diligently to reconcile claims about a performance's aesthetic value with its economic value. In the process, they theorized ontologies of drama, worried over the inherently public nature of performance, and parsed how contributions by actors affected a work's success. I offer evidence of how performing rights laws influenced theater-making, best evinced by the phenomenon of the "copyright performance" and the rise of literary drama. And I consider how and why performing rights laws developed in markedly different fashions for theatrical and musical performances. Narrating the law's slow development, I document performance's incongruous relationship to commodity capitalism at the moment copyright law wrote performance into that system.
Author : Luke McDonagh
Release : 2021-06-17
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 042/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Performing Copyright by : Luke McDonagh
Download or read book Performing Copyright written by Luke McDonagh. This book was released on 2021-06-17. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on empirical research, this innovative book explores issues of performativity and authorship in the theatre world under copyright law and addresses several inter-connected questions: who is the author and first owner of a dramatic work? Who gets the credit and the licensing rights? What rights do the performers of the work have? Given the nature of theatre as a medium reliant on the re-use of prior existing works, tropes, themes and plots, what happens if an allegation of copyright infringement is made against a playwright? Furthermore, who possesses moral rights over the work? To evaluate these questions in the context of theatre, the first part of the book examines the history of the dramatic work both as text and as performative work. The second part explores the notions of authorship and joint authorship under copyright law as they apply to the actual process of creating plays, referring to legal and theatrical literature, as well as empirical research. The third part looks at the notion of copyright infringement in the context of theatre, noting that cases of alleged theatrical infringement reach the courts comparatively rarely in comparison with music cases, and assessing the reasons for this with respect to empirical research. The fourth part examines the way moral rights of attribution and integrity work in the context of theatre. The book concludes with a prescriptive comment on how law should respond to the challenges provided by the theatrical context, and how theatre should respond to law. Very original and innovative, this book proposes a ground-breaking empirical approach to study the implications of copyright law in society and makes a wonderful case for the need to consider the reciprocal influence between law and practice.
Author : Kathy Bowrey
Release : 2020-11-23
Genre : Law
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Book Rating : 092/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value by : Kathy Bowrey
Download or read book Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value written by Kathy Bowrey. This book was released on 2020-11-23. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As the publishing, film and music industries are dominated by Big Media conglomerates, there is often recourse to simplistic ideological and conspiratorial readings of industry dynamics. Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value: Incorporating the Author explains why copyright is much more than a creator’s private property right or a mechanism through which corporations control cultural production and influence mass consumption choices. The volume is grounded in extensive, painstakingly detailed and colourful original archival research into business histories of major successful artists including Conan Doyle, Hall Caine, Margaret Atwood, Dame Nellie Melba, Radiohead and Banksy, and the industries and genres that grew up around their activities. Chapters address big questions about how copyright generates income and how distributions of profits are allocated in the publishing, film and music industries. It includes discussion of the creation of new formats, the interplay between old media and new technologies, international copyright reform and cross-industry relations. Copyright, Creativity, Big Media and Cultural Value is a wide-ranging and important resource for students and practitioners of law and policy, media studies, cultural studies and literary history.
Author : Danielle Rosvally
Release : 2024-07-01
Genre : Performing Arts
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Book Rating : 357/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theatres of Value by : Danielle Rosvally
Download or read book Theatres of Value written by Danielle Rosvally. This book was released on 2024-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Theatres of Value explores the idea that buying and selling are performative acts and offers a paradigm for deeper study of these acts—"the dramaturgy of value." Modeling this multifaceted approach, the book explores six case studies to show how and why Shakespeare had value for nineteenth-century New Yorkers. In considering William Brown's African Theater, P. T. Barnum's American Museum and Lecture Hall, Fanny Kemble's American reading career, the Booth family brand, the memorial statue of Shakespeare in Central Park, and an 1888 benefit performance of Hamlet to theatrical impresario Lester Wallack, Theatres of Value traces a history of audience engagement with Shakespearean cultural capital and the myriad ways this engagement was leveraged by theatrical businesspeople.
