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.

This article explores the nature of losses when protected works are stolen, infringed, or pirated and how the losses differ significantly for materials in physical and virtual form.

This article explores the nature of creativity itself and speaks about artistic creation, freedom, and control. It is a call for the total integration of the creative process in society and the placing of the artist in a leadership position to effect such integration.

This article examines the issue of colorization of black and white films. In particular, the author focuses on the issue of copyright protection as it relates to colorization, with emphasis on its notable absence of protection for moral, as opposed to economic, rights of authors and creators.

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

This article argues that a failure inherent in obscenity law itself explains why art is increasingly on trial. In recent years, we have witnessed a stunning assault on sexually explicit contemporary art in this country. Waged in Congressional funding debates, in political campaigns, and in the courts, this assault has raised a recurring question: What is obscenity and what is art? The question has sent artists, museums, galleries, judges and lawyers scrambling to decipher the constitutional law of obscenity, a hotly disputed and peculiarly anachronistic area of law. Over the past two years...