In Copyrights and Copywrongs, the author tracks the history of American copyright law and also argues persuasively that current American copyright law hinders cultural production which contributes to the poverty of civic culture.

The Internet is often depicted as the ultimate arena for unfettered capitalism, erasing geographic boundaries and barriers to entry while providing a plethora of goods and services to consumers. This article traces how public and private reactions by the five major record companies to new Internet distribution technologies have undermined this popular myth.

This article invokes contemporary German philosopher Jürgen Habermas's notion of the public sphere for the insight it can provide to museums as they reflect on what it means to be a public institution at this particular time in our history.

The purpose of this article is to analyse the economic properties as well as the institutions governing the start-up and evolution of cultural districts.

This article briefly out-lines the historical development of Western intellectual property rights, illustrates many problems from a non-ethnocentric study of the topic.

In this article I describe in broad outline the nature of the transactions that define the arts sector and relationships between the for-profit and not-forprofit parts of it. I base the article on a component of a 2000 report to the Irvine Foundation, which itself was an outgrowth of the 1998 American Assembly entitled “Deals and Ideals: For-Profit and Not-for-Profit Arts Connections.”

This report resulted from the 100th American Assembly entitled Art, Technology, and Intellectual Property.

Protect Your Artwork will help you sort out most of the legal issues involved in the ownership, protection and transfer of visual artworks.

This publication, the first in a series of issue papers as part of the Centers for Arts and Culture Art, Culture and the National Agenda project, provides an overview, historical analysis, and discourse on the legal implications of copyright law for the creative sector and cultural organizations.

The shift to an era of man-made brain-power industries is creating the technologies that are creating a global economy.