One of the most interesting policy issues to appear on the political landscape over the past several years is the debate over warning labels on records and tapes. The issue of warning labels is a fascinating study of First Amendment freedom that has focused public opinion around two very different and often conflicting policy options. The first option is what Ithiel de Sola Pool terms a policy of freedom, one that places the emphasis on the rights of the individual over the rights of the state. The second option is what could be termed a policy of justified control, one that emphasizes the...

Music Law provides all the legal information and practical advice musicians need.

Included in this pamphlet are essays focusing on the concept of censorship and the direct response of artists to censorship. Prepared to accompany an exhibit in the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, California, September 22 - October 28, 1989. Like any overly-mediated term, censorship has been conceptually bandied about into oblivion. The dictionary definition of censorship implies moral directiveness, but where these morals come from, and how they are disseminated are highly complex issues that clearly cannot be cohesively attached to a single word.

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.

If one were to create a generalist's guide to major areas of concern in the fields of arts management and arts law, the topics addressed in this volume would all be included - copyright, income-producing activities of charitable organizations, and the uneasy relationship between the arts and culture and cable television.

Getting Permission is a guide through the permissions process for the use of copyrighted material.