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X-WR-CALNAME:Book talk with Brent Salter\, “Negotiating Copyright in the 
 American Theatre: 1856-1951”
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DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a book talk with author and Stanford Center 
 for Law and History Fellow Brent Salter: “Negotiating Copyright in the A
 merican Theatre: 1856-1951.”  The hybrid event is co-hosted between the 
 Stanford Center for Law and History and the Department of Theater and Perf
 ormance Studies\, Stanford. Commentators for the event include Derek Mille
 r (Harvard English)\, Kara Swanson (Northeastern Law)\, Marlis Schweitzer 
 (York Theatre)\, Jose Bellido (Kent Law)\, and Ann Folino White (Michigan 
 State Theatre). The event will be chaired by Amalia Kessler (SCLH Director
  and Stanford Law) and Kathy Bowrey (UNSW Law).\n\nThe event will also be 
 stremaned at the HowlRound website.\n\nCurrent guidelines do not allow us 
 to bring food into events. For those who attend in-person\, however\, lunc
 h will be provided at 12:20PM\, 20 minutes before the talk at Room 320D\, 
 Stanford Law School.\n\nWe also ask all those who attend in-person to comp
 ly with current Stanford event guidelines which can be found here.\n\nTo R
 SVP\, click here. Those who confirm their attendance will receive a separa
 te email containing the paper and link to the event.\n\nAbstract:\n\nThe b
 ook is a historical account of how creation is negotiated in the American 
 theatre. It is also about how the American theatre has structured its indu
 stry relationships and how industry stakeholders\, and in particular drama
 tists\, have responded to these structures through industry customs and co
 llective organization. The research seeks to explain how stakeholders who 
 controlled the transformation of the dramatic work from the playwright’s
  manuscript to the theatrical stage asserted expansive power over theatric
 al creation between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth centuries. These 
 stakeholders (mediators of the American theatre) evolved in different form
 s: for-profit\, nonprofit\, and governmental. They included theatrical age
 nts\, transnational publishers\, producers and managers that emerged and f
 ormed combination businesses\, and government programs established during 
 the New Deal. Instead of situating copyright law at the center of legal au
 thority structures in the American theatre\, the book explores how labor r
 elationships\, administrative structures and processes\, control over mate
 rial resources\, informal guild expectations and minimum contracts\, and o
 ther professional norms\, all shape how theatre-makers relate cultural pro
 duction to the more nebulous space of a realized theatrical performance on
  a stage.
LOCATION:Stanford Law School\, Room 320D
SUMMARY:Book talk with Brent Salter\, “Negotiating Copyright in the Ameri
 can Theatre: 1856-1951”
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