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What is to break and what is not
« Thread Started on Mar 13, 2007, 5:20pm »

I was speaking to Mr Bored regarding theatre practices (and practices of other forms of art) specifically to what extend should one production break the "rules and laws" set by the society, so to say, "push the boundaries". Some say art acts at the line (the boundary), the gray area, that lies between what were defined by society as correct and incorrect, and artists are responsible to constantly justify the line's position and define the line by their creations, and through that they "push the boundaries" and sometimes they break the "rules and laws"

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Definitely, copyrights law was our concern as it is something that protects one’s intellectual property, his creativity, and eventually aims to conceive a standard practice conducive in encouraging people to "create". As artists, designers, art professionals, art agents and practitioners, (as creators ourselves) I think it should be one of our responsibilities to lead this good practice.

Any disagreement till here? Okie 8-)

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This practice is indeed one of the elements that enforce the value of art, as what can be worthy that is created and can be distributed for free? On the other side, some would deem borrowing or reproducing an art for free without good consent, for example, as Bored and I spoke about, using a piece of music without proper clearances for a theatre production could be what one believe as part of the whole design of breaking the “rules and laws”, hence being rationalized as “pushing the boundaries” ::)

. This example is the cause of my post and to bring this to a level of awareness and discussion, here is my question:

Is that example a form of breaking rules or breaking the value of art?

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Re: What is to break and what is not
« Reply #1 on Mar 14, 2007, 3:22pm »

I'll add on to that: Are art schools, such as LASALLE-SIA, allowed to bypass the standard protocol of obtaining a license to include a song from a known artist that has recorded and distributed CDs worldwide and has copyright written all over it? Are they allowed to plagiarise without verbal or written consent to the said publisher?

This is also up for discussion. =)

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Re: What is to break and what is not
« Reply #2 on Mar 15, 2007, 12:53am »

According to what i know, 10% of copyrighted materials are allowed to be reproduced for educational purposes, not all. But in the case of an art school including a song in an actual production by students with public presence should differ from students including 10% of a copyrighted material in his/her assignment. I think most established institutes and schools should already have a general clearence cover for everything that happens within the campus. 8-)

Bored I will agree with you if you say a production by students not for commercial purpose should bypass the protocol

. but still good if the school pays- its part of your tuition fees paid to the school anyway

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