A documentary is being made. A cell phone rings and plays the theme song of “Rocky”. The filmmaker was told that she would have to pay $10,000 to erase the rights to the song. Can that be true? “Eyes on the Prize,” the major civil rights documentary, was withdrawn from circulation because the filmmakers` rights to the music and footage had expired. What is going on? This is the collision of documentary and intellectual property, and this is the inspiration for this new comic. Follow the heroine Akiko in the filming of her documentary and navigate the meanders of intellectual property. Why do we have copyright? What is fair dealing? Bound By Law goes beyond documentary filmmaking, commenting on the most pressing issues of law, art, property and an increasingly digital world of remix culture. This book is available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike license. With this license you can translate the comic for free – read the Portuguese translation, the English translation, the Italian translation, the Brazilian-Portuguese translation, the Polish translation or the German translation of the comic! Support the Center (This link leads to Duke University`s general donation form where the Center is named as a recipient) -Art Spiegelman, Pulitzer Prize-winning comic book artist The production and distribution of this book was made possible with the support of the Rockefeller, MacArthur and Ford Foundation.
This is a project of Duke`s Center for the Study of the Public Domain that focuses on the delicate balance between intellectual property and the public domain – the realm of material that can be freely used without authorization or payment. To learn more about some of the centre`s projects in areas such as health policy and music sampling, click here. Free digital versions What people say buy book Press and other surveys.