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Greenberg, Marc H. Comic Art, Creativity and the Law. Elgar Law and Entrepreneurship. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar, 2014. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
DOI: 10.4337/9781781954935
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781781954928
BibTeX citation key: Greenberg2014
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Categories: General
Keywords: Copyright, Creative process, Justice, Kulturpolitik, USA
Creators: Greenberg
Publisher: Edward Elgar (Cheltenham)
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Abstract
The creation of works of comic art, including graphic novels, comic books, cartoons and comic strips, and political cartoons, is affected, and at times limited, by a diverse array of laws, ranging from copyright law to free speech laws. This book examines how this intersection affects the creative process, and proposes approaches that encourage, rather than limit, that process in the comic art genre. Attention to the role comic art occupies in popular culture, and how the law responds to that role, is also analyzed.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements (vii)
Table of authorities (ix)

PART I INTRODUCTION

PART II CREATIVITY AND THE LAW
1. The neuroscience of creativity (7)
2. How the law views the creative process (12)

PART III COMIC ART – HISTORY, STRUCTURE AND MODE
3. A brief history of comic art (21)
4. The structure and common modes for comic art (25)

PART IV THE IMPACT OF LAW ON THE CREATION AND STRUCTURE OF COMIC ART
5. Uneasy bedfellows: comic art creators and publishers—how comic art publishing contracts shape the creation of comic art (37)
6. Copyright law’s impact on the creative process in comic art (50)
7. A short comment on derivative works, fan art and fiction (95)

PART V CONSTRAINING CREATIVITY: THE EFFECT OF TAX LAW AND OBSCENITY LAW ON THE CREATIVE PROCESS
8. The power to tax and the First Amendment: Mavrides v. Board of Equalization (99)
9. Censoring creativity, the Comics Code Authority and the birth of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund (111)
10. Obscenity law and the First Amendment: CBLDF to the defense (126)
11. The bigger picture: obscenity, the First Amendment and the moral education of the young (156)

PART VI COMIC ART AND LAW IN THE INTERNATIONAL AND DIGITAL MARKETS
12. Comic art and the law in the international marketplace (173)
13. Comic art, law and the digital revolution (179)
14. Concluding remarks (188)

Index (189)


  
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