By Kendra Mayfield. WiredNews
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,55592,00.html
"If current copyright laws had been on the books when jazz musicians were borrowing riffs from other artists in the 1930s and Looney Tunes illustrators were creating cartoons in the 1940s, entire art genres such as hip-hop, collage and Pop Art might never have existed.
The debate over whether artists can use copyrighted materials entered the national spotlight this week as the Supreme Court heard opening arguments in Eldred v. Ashcroft, a case in which plaintiffs are seeking to overturn the 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act.
To acknowledge this landmark case, an exhibit will celebrate "degenerate art" in a corporate age: art and ideas on the fringes of intellectual property law.
The exhibit, Illegal Art: Freedom of _expression_ in the Corporate Age, will take place in New York from Nov. 13 to Dec. 6 and in Chicago from Jan. 25 to Feb. 22..."
Director of Image Resources & Copyright Management
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem www.imj.org.il
Board of Directors, the Museum Computer Network www.mcn.edu ---
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