Copyright and the Value of Performance, 1770-1911

List of contents

Introduction: copyright, commodification, and performance; 1. Performance's valuable propriety, 1770-1833; 2. Ontologies of the performance-commodity, 1833-86; 3. Audiences, actors, and value, 1852-1911; 4. The performance-commodity at work, 1833-1911; Epilogue: valuing performance today; Appendix: timeline of major legislation and litigation affecting performance rights.

About the author

Derek Miller is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities at Harvard University, Massachusetts.

Summary

Copyright for performances of theater and music was invented in the nineteenth century. Courtroom battles over new laws helped define the value of dramatic and musical performances both economically and artistically. Scholars of theater and performance, music, and law will learn how copyright changes the artistic forms it seeks to control.

Product details

• Authors: Derek Miller, Derek (Harvard University Miller, Miller Derek
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2020
• EAN: 9781108441698
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44169-8
• No. of pages: 291
• Series: Theatre and Performance Theory
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; DRAMA / General, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Classical, LAW / Intellectual Property / Copyright, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, MUSIC / Business Aspects, Theatre Studies, Music Industry, Copyright Law, Romanticism, Plays, Playscripts, Classical Music (C 1750 To C 1830), Classical style, Romantic Music (C 1830 To C 1900), Art music, orchestral and formal music