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Author : Derek Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 23,17 MB
Release : 2018-08-16
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1108425887
Explores the development of nineteenth-century performance copyright laws which shape how we define and value drama and music.
Author : Derek Miller
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 27,57 MB
Release : 2013
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ISBN :
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
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 18,80 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Law
ISBN : 1509927042
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
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 49,81 MB
Release : 2020-11-23
Category : Law
ISBN : 0429575092
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
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 27,48 MB
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1438498357
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.
Author : Jane Wessel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 40,88 MB
Release : 2022-07-14
Category : Law
ISBN : 0472133071
How playwrights, actors, and theater managers vied for control over the performance of popular plays after the passage of England's first copyright law
Author : Katie Scott
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,77 MB
Release : 2018
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780300222791
This original and relevant book investigates the relationship between intellectual property and the visual arts in France from the 16th century to the French Revolution. It charts the early history of privilege legislation (today's copyright and patent) for books and inventions, and the translation of its legal terms by and for the image. Those terms are explored in their force of law and in relation to artistic discourse and creative practice in the early modern period. The consequences of commercially motivated law for art and its definitions, specifically its eventual separation from industry, are important aspects of the story. The artists who were caught up in disputes about intellectual property ranged from the officers of the Academy down to the lowest hacks of Grub Street. Lessons from this book may still apply in the 21st century; with the advent of inexpensive methods of reproduction, multiplication, and dissemination via digital channels, questions of intellectual property and the visual arts become important once more.
Author : Brent Salter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 45,26 MB
Release : 2022-01-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 1108484751
The book illuminates the legal and business history of the American theatre through new archival discoveries.
Author : Monica F. Cohen
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 45,29 MB
Release : 2018-01-02
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813940702
Two distinctly different meanings of piracy are ingeniously intertwined in Monica Cohen's lively new book, which shows how popular depictions of the pirate held sway on the page and the stage even as their creators were preoccupied with the ravages of literary appropriation. The golden age of piracy captured the nineteenth-century imagination, animating such best-selling novels as Treasure Island and inspiring theatrical hits from The Pirates of Penzance to Peter Pan. But the prevalence of unauthorized reprinting and dramatic adaptation meant that authors lost immense profits from the most lucrative markets. Infuriated, novelists and playwrights denounced such literary piracy in essays, speeches, and testimonies. Their fiction, however, tells a different story. Using landmarks in copyright history as a backdrop, Pirating Fictions argues that popular nineteenth-century pirate fiction mischievously resists the creation of intellectual property in copyright legislation and law. Drawing on classic pirate stories by such writers as Walter Scott, James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Louis Stevenson, and J. M. Barrie, this wide-ranging account demonstrates, in raucous tales and telling asides, how literary appropriation was celebrated at the very moment when the forces of possessive individualism began to enshrine the language of personal ownership in Anglo-American views of creative work.
Author : Matthew Franks
Publisher :
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 31,90 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Performing arts
ISBN : 0812252470
Subscription Theater asks why turn-of-the-century British and Irish citizens spent so much time, money, and effort joining subscription lists. Matthew Franks argues that subscribers have been responsible for how we value audience and repertoire today, offering a new account of the relationship between ephemera, drama, and democracy.