{"id":879,"date":"2006-04-13T08:38:24","date_gmt":"2006-04-13T15:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp\/2006\/04\/copyright_and_heritage\/"},"modified":"2006-04-13T08:38:24","modified_gmt":"2006-04-13T15:38:24","slug":"copyright_and_heritage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/copyright_and_heritage.php","title":{"rendered":"Copyright and heritage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Building on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/main\/007894.php\">Tuesday&#8217;s post<\/a> about the threat of copyright and restrictive creative contracts on new forms of expression, <a href=\"http:\/\/news.ft.com\/cms\/s\/bbf6082a-c989-11da-94ca-0000779e2340,s01=1.html\">this article in the <i>Financial Times<\/i><\/a> exposes the flip-side of the same constraints: the challenge of bringing existing media content onto new distribution platforms.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><br \/>\nThat is because the contractual arrangements that have long governed business relations between media companies and \u201cthe talent\u201d &#8212; actors, directors, writers and other artists &#8212; never contemplated the commercial opportunities presented by the iPod, video-on-demand or other emerging media venues.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The article focuses on the back catalogs of television shows, sitting in warehouses constrained by creative contracts rather than flowing onto iPods and web sites for cash. While older sit-coms may not meet your criteria for &#8220;heritage content,&#8221; the story gives an important view of something you <i>might<\/i> care more about &#8212; any and all existing media of essential creative works.<\/p>\n<p>If a busload of lawyers and the promise of cash can&#8217;t readily resolve ownership issues in commercial television, imagine how hard it will be to get nonprofit content cleared for take-off. For example, shouldn&#8217;t you or your children or <i>their<\/i> children have access to video recordings of Martha Graham, Balanchine&#8217;s early works in New York, seminal theater productions of Mamet or Miller, or musical performances by the legends of every discipline? If you think so, there&#8217;s a web of creative ownership rights standing in the way of that access.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a whole generation of extraordinary content captured on video and film that is nearly impossible to clear for public viewing &#8212; on-line or otherwise. That&#8217;s not just a threat to future creations and creators, but to the very memory of our world that great art represents.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Building on Tuesday&#8217;s post about the threat of copyright and restrictive creative contracts on new forms of expression, this article in the Financial Times exposes the flip-side of the same constraints: the challenge of bringing existing media content onto new distribution platforms. That is because the contractual arrangements that have long governed business relations between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/artfulmanager\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}