Law and Culture: The Elgin Marbles to Napster
HIST 343
Fall 2010
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01
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This seminar introduces students to some of the rapidly evolving legal debates about art and cultural property--display, repatriation, theft, wartime destruction--as well as intellectual property: copyright, the Internet, and so on. How have museums, Interpol, and UNESCO navigated the murky (and often dangerous) waters of art and cultural property law? How have legal scholars, publishers, newspapers, authors, and media empires such as Google struggled to define the terms by which "information" reaches audiences? Readings will include case studies, legal theory, and a wide range of polemical treatises. |
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Essential Capabilities:
None |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
SBS HIST |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Barbara T. Hoffman, ed., ART AND CULTURAL HERITAGE: LAW, POLICY, AND PRACTICE
Thomas, Hoving, MAKING THE MUMMIES DANCE
John Merryman, et al, LAW, ETHICS, AND THE VISUAL ARTS
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Examinations and Assignments:
Weekly responses, three essays. |
| Instructor(s): Swinehart,Kirk Davis Times: ..T.... 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: PAC413; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 2 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: 1 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 4 | FR: 0 |
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