If one were to create a generalist's guide to major areas of concern in the fields of arts management and arts law, the topics addressed in this volume would all be included - copyright, income-producing activities of charitable organizations, and the uneasy relationship between the arts and culture and cable television. Each topic has found a specific location in that fairly new landscape for the arts, that is, the terrain which allows strategies for commercial possibility and profit to coexist with institutions that are exempted from certain taxes because their activities contribute substantially to the public welfare. This is a challenging landscape to explore since it seems constantly to make room for the endless inventions of creative minds. But it is a dangerous one as well, since issues of protection, regulation, and fairness may be more fragile and less resilient than they would appear to be at first glance.

The legal discussion of copyright in this volume is one of a series of increasingly complex searches under way to determine the actual protection offered by copyright law in relation to technological methods of reproduction. The discussion is a preface to the difficulties that abound in interpreting and changing of the law to encompass technological possibilities that either have not yet pervaded the marketplace or that lack, in their essential nature, protectable attributes.

If one were to create a generalist's guide to major areas of concern in the fields of arts management and arts law, the topics addressed in this volume would all be included - copyright, income-producing activities of charitable organizations, and the uneasy relationship between the arts and culture and cable television.