The Rights of Authors, Artists, and Other Creative People: The Basic ACLU Guide to Author and Artist Rights (American Civil Liberties Union Handbook)

The book begins with a look at the provisions of the U.S. Constitution that apply to creative people, and it then examines the major legal areas of special concern to those people: copyright; contracts; libel, privacy, and other claims of injury; obscenity; and business and tax matters. This comprehensive and up-to-date guide provides an invaluable and easy-to-read resource for the basic legal rights of creative people in the 1990's. The fully revised and expanded edition discusses the most recent developments in the ever-changing laws governing the publishing, communications, and entertainment businesses. While addressing the concerns of many types of creative artists, the book concentrates on the legal rights and obligations of authors who write articles, books, plays, and motion pictures and artists and photographers who make works of visual art Covers copyright, libel, privacy, obscenity, and other areas