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Law and the arts

This interdisciplinary study examines the relationships between law and the humanities. On the one side, chapters focus on legal restraints in the media, censorship of the arts, copyright protection on the Internet, and so on. On the other, the role of law in literature and theatre is explored.
Print Book, English, 1999
Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 1999
Konferenzschrift Hempstead, NY 1996
XII, 256 Seiten
9780313308055, 0313308055
231775531
Foreword by Stuart Rabinowitz Preface by Susan Tiefenbrun Law, the Arts, and Censorship Legal Restraints at the TV Channeling Controversy by Sondra M. Rubenstein Censorship in the Arts in the U.S. Today by Leanne Katz Art and Repression in the McCarthy Era by Howard Fast The Old Problem of New Communications Technologies: Can We Do Better This Time? by Eric M. Freedman Law and Cyberspace Museums without Walls: Promissory Rights and Reproduction in the World of Cyberspace by Susan J. Drucker and Gary Gumpert Copyright and Cyberspace: Functioning in a Digitally Networked Environment by Donald Fishman Law and Literature Vichy Law and the Holocaust in France: PREcis of a Talk to the Hofstra Conference by Richard H. Weisberg A Comment on Richard H. Weisberg's Work on the Vichy Lawyers by Robin West Legal Fiction and Literary Fiction in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century France by Christian Biet Law, Literary Theory, and Critical Legal Theory: A Forum by Mitchel Lasser, et al. Law and Shakespeare Introduction to Interdisciplinarity and the Retrial of Shylock by Susan Tiefenbrun The Trial of Shylock from The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare by Peter M. Sander Appellant's Brief by Daniel J. Kornstein Appellee's Brief by Floyd Abrams Appellant's Reply Brief by Daniel J. Kornstein Shylock v. Antonio on Appeal: The Deliberations by Daniel J. Kornstein Thoughts of a Literary Judge by Howard Kissel Shylock on Appeal by Peter J. Alscher Law and Art Cass Gilberts's U.S. Supreme Court and the Comprehensive Planning Ideal by Barbara S. Christen Index