Legal Aspects of Arts Management
Main language of instruction: Spanish
Other languages of instruction: English
If the student is enrolled for the English track then classes for that subject will be taught in the same language.
Head instructor
Lc. Carlos RIVADULLA - crivadulla@uic.es
Lda. Cristina Ana CALVET - ccalvet@uic.es
Office hours
The three teachers will receive students if they have arranged a previous appointment, by e mail.
Dr. Maria Mut: mariamut@uic.es
Prof. Cristina Calvet: ccalvet@uic.es
Prof. Carlos Rivadulla: crivadulla@ecofrego.com
According to the Master's itinerary, this subject is taught in two separate groups: Spanish/Catalan and English.
The teacher in charge of the Spanish group is Lda. Cristina Calvet and the teacher responsible for the English group is Dr. Maria Mut. Furthermore, the latter group has another teacher, Ldo. Carlos Rivadulla, who is in charge of the second part of this subject, concerning Industrial and Intellectual Property Law.
Given the diverse geographic origin of the students of the English group, this subject will use the parameters of international law and will include aspects of European law (European Union).
This course is made up of two parts; each of them will have the same number of sessions:
Both parts of the course will have theoretical content as well as practical cases.
The same as for the Master's Degree.
The main objectives of this subjects can be listed as the following:
To get familiar and learn to use legal terminology and concepts.
To be able to access and interpret international law regarding culture and art.
To solve legal issues regarding the protection and management of culture and art.
To reach a global overview of the set of rules which regulate this area of knowledge and understand the consequences of beaching those rules.
To provide students with an understanding of core aspects of intellectual property laws and practice.
To encourage students to think pragmatically about the importance of intellectual prosperity rights in the cultural business.
Be able to understand, interpret and implement the Spanish and International law which regulates and protects culture and art, in particular the fundamental aspects of Intellectual Property in order to manage and contract cultural contents and services.
At the end of this course, the student
FIRST PART: INTERNATIONAL LAW AND CULTURE
UNIT 1. The regulation of culture in International Conventions.
1.1 The Protection of Culture in International Conventions
1.2 Culture and International Organisations.
1.3 UNESCO and the protection of the World Heritage
1.4 Council of Europe. Human Rights and Cultural Cooperation.
1.5 Main Conventions on Cultural Co-operation and Cultural Exchanges
UNIT 2. Culture in the European Union.
2.1 Culture: from the EC Treaty to the Lisbon Treaty.
2.2 The Legal framework of Culture in the EC Law.
2.3 The European Agenda for Culture in a Globalising World
2.4 First generation of cultural programmes and the new culture programme (2007-2013) 2.5 Achievements and Challenges.
UNIT 3 The protection and trade of Cultural Goods.
3.1 Definition of Cultural Good.
3.2 The Protection of Cultural Goods in International Conventions
3.3 The Protection of Cultural goods in the EU Directive and EU Regulation.
3.4 The Protection of Cultural goods in the Conventions of the Council of Europe
3.5 The Present and future overviews.
SECOND PART: THE LAW OF INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
UNIT 1. Introduction to Intellectual Property
UNIT 2. Copyright
UNIT 3. Copyright
UNIT 4. Copyright
UNIT 5. Protection of Designs
UNIT 6. Trademarks
UNIT 7. Patents
UNIT 8. Negotiating intellectual property rights
UNIT 9. Intellectual property rights in the information society
The methodology of this subject includes theoretical lectures and the resolution of practical cases. These tasks will be complemented by different readings, such as international conventions, regulations or laws, as well as doctrinal and jurisprudential texts.
In order to pass, the student must pass each of the two parts of this course.
Please note that for Prof. Carlos Rivadulla part of the subject the evaluation system will be the following one:
Kurt Siehr, The Protection OF Cultural Heritage and International Commerce, International Journal of Cultural Property, Cambridge University Press, pp. 304-326, 1997.
Craig Forrest, International Law and the Protection of Cultural Heritage, Heritage Museum Studies, Routledge, UK.
Barbara T. Hoffman, Art and Cultural Heritage, Cambridge, 2006.
D’Angelo, Mario and Paul Vespérini, Cultural policies in Europe: a comparative approach, Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 1998.
Aron M. Milrad, Artful Ownership : Art Law, Valuation, and Commerce in the United States, Canada, and Mexico, American Society of Appraisers, 2000.
David Ward, The European Union and the Culture Industries: Regulation and the Public Interest, Ashgate, pp. 282, 2008.
Clare Hall, Telecommunications Regulation: Culture, Chaos and Interdependance Inside the Regulatory Process, Routledge, pp., 1999.
Kenneth A Thompson, Media and Cultural Regulation (Culture, Media and Identities series), Sage Publications Ltd; illustrated edition edition, pp. 256, 1997.
Ana Filipa Vrdoljak, History and Evolution of International Cultural Heritage Law: Through the Question of the Removal and Return of Cultural Objects, Accepted Paper Series, Faculty of Laws, University of Western Australi, 2009.
Aaron M. Milrad, Artful Ownership : Art Law, Valuation, and Commerce in the United States, Canada, and Mexico; American Society of Appraisers, pp.342, 2000.
Simon Evers Hjelmborg, Peter Stig Jakobsen and Sune Troels Poulsen, Public Procurement Law - The EU Directive on Public Contracts, Copenhagen: DJØF Publishing, Pp 450, 2006.
Enrique Banús Irusta, Problemas derivados de la identidad cultural en el context de la ampliación de la Unión Europea, European Union at twenty-five: political and economic challenges, pp.189-204, 2005.
Enrique Banús Irusta; Lengua, nación, Europa; Pulchre, bene recte: homenaje al prof. Fernando González Ollé, pp.139-154,2002.
Enrique Banús Irusta, Participación ciudadana en el nuevo auge de la cultura: ejemplos de la vida teatral y musical, la participación en las organizaciones: un desafío para el nuevo milenio, pp.223-230, 2001.
Enrique Banús Irusta, ¿Desde o hacia el multiculturalismo? Un concepto y su plasmación en la UE y Consejo de Europa?, Razón práctica y multiculturalismo: actas del 1er Simposio Internacional de Filosofía y Ciencias Sociales, pp. 259-78, 1999.