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Shades Of Grey: Can The Copyright Fair Use Defense Adapt To New Re-Contextualized Forms Of Music And Art?, Nicholas B. Lewis Oct 2005

Shades Of Grey: Can The Copyright Fair Use Defense Adapt To New Re-Contextualized Forms Of Music And Art?, Nicholas B. Lewis

American University Law Review

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Screening The Law: Ideology And Law In American Popular Culture, Mark Niles, Naomi Mezey Jan 2005

Screening The Law: Ideology And Law In American Popular Culture, Mark Niles, Naomi Mezey

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

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Judging Art, Christine Farley Jan 2005

Judging Art, Christine Farley

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

What is art? Surprisingly, this question is addressed in various places in the law. At these junctures, courts typically attempt to avoid making a judgment. Indeed, the law generally resists any definition of art. The reasons given for this are that these determinations are too subjective for the courts and that judges lack proper training and expertise. Thus, the doctrine of avoidance is the most stable and explicitly stated proposition to be found in these encounters. However, the question of whether an object is a work of art for treatment under the law is often unavoidable. This question gets resolved …


The Struggle For Music Copyright, Michael W. Carroll Jan 2005

The Struggle For Music Copyright, Michael W. Carroll

Articles in Law Reviews & Other Academic Journals

Inspired by passionate contemporary debates about music copyright, this Article investigates how, when, and why music first came within copyright's domain. Ironically, although music publishers and recording companies are among the most aggressive advocates for strong copyright in music today, music publishers in eighteenth-century England resisted extending copyright to music. This Article sheds light on a series of early legal disputes concerning printed music that yield important insights into original understandings of copyright law and music's role in society. By focusing attention on this understudied episode, this Article demonstrates that the concept of copyright was originally far more circumscribed than …