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Dissertation Information for Randall U. Larsen

NAME:
- Randall U. Larsen

DEGREE:
- Ph.D.

DISCIPLINE:
- Library and Information Science

SCHOOL:
- University of Hawaii (USA) (2005)

ADVISORS:
- Majid Tehranian

COMMITTEE MEMBERS:
- Andrew Arno
- Robert Jacob Littman
- Beverly Ann Deepe Keever
- Richard Waller Chadwick

MPACT Status: Fully Complete

Title: Artist's rights versus copyright owner's rights: Conflict resolution when the logic of intellectual property law is articulated with motion picture production, a collaborative mode of production

Abstract: This abstract describes a case-study research project that investigates methods of conflict resolution between artists and copyright owners over artist rights issues in the production and distribution of Motion Pictures by Hollywood Studios. The principal research methodology the project uses is the historical method. In order to more fully understand the history of conflicts involving artist's rights the project traces concepts of intellectual property from conjectured pre-historic beginnings through recorded history to the present era. The research suggests that the current Anglo-American Intellectual Property Law is based on the romantic notion of the individual author and the individual copyright owner.As an incentive to cultural production Copyright law grants the individual author both an author's moral rights and an owner's property rights in his or her cultural production. The financing of a Hollywood Motion Picture generally requires that the cultural production be owned by a corporate owner instead of its artist creator. This research finds that the interests of the two parties often don't coincide. Thus conflicts arise between artist creators and the corporate copyright owner. The research is based on the view that culture is socially constructed. The research is also informed by three other principal theoretical bases. The first is a theory of articulation. The second is Gramsci's theory of hegemony which suggests that a dominant group exercises power over another group by shaping the world-view of that group with a particular ideology (in this case the ideology inherent in intellectual property law). The third theoretical basis of this research is the theory of intertextuality which suggests that artists in constructing motion pictures must refer directly or indirectly to other motion pictures and to other texts or meaning systems. This theory-building research explores the broad research question "how are conflicts resolved between artists and copyright owners surrounding the issue of artist's rights?" The research suggests that the "author" ideology inherent in intellectual property law is used as a hegemonic discourse to resolve conflicts in favor of the commercial interests of dominant corporate intellectual property rights holders in preference to the rights of artists and the information-seeking public.


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