出版社/著者からの内容紹介
美術品などの文化的遺産が公共的蓄えであるというのは，自明なようであるが，問題はそれほど単純ではない．たとえばレンブラントの絵の所有者がその絵を標的にしてダーツ遊びをやったとしても，なんら法律にもとることはないし，私的な束縛を受けることもない．それでは問題はどこにあるのか．どのような解決の道があるのか．
内容（「BOOK」データベースより）
チャーチルの肖像画はなぜ燃やされたのか。死海写本はなぜ長期間人目に触れなかったのか。知的財産権、文化の共有を問う。
内容（「MARC」データベースより）
レンブラントの絵画を標的に所有者がダーツ遊びを行う。こうした例における問題はどこに発生するか。チャーチルの肖像画、死海写本などのいくつかの事例に触れながら、文化遺産の知的財産権と共有について問題提起する。
From Publishers Weekly
Pointing out that if a wanton art collector wanted to play darts with his Rembrandt portrait, no one could stop him, Sax contends that conventional notions of ownership need to be modified for artistic treasures, important scientific objects, architecturally significant buildings and documents of cultural or historical import. Sax calls for a form of qualified--rather than exclusive--ownership of cultural treasures, founded on a recognition that the public at large has a stake in them. Wittily written with an eye for human foibles, this survey is chock full of illustrative incidents, such as the Rockefeller family's 1934 destruction of a mural they had commissioned from Communist painter Diego Rivera; the case of the Dead Sea Scrolls, monopolized for four decades by a small group of scholars until an intensive campaign opened them to the public in 1984; Jonas Salk's radical renovation of the La Jolla, Calif., research institute named after him--departing greatly from Louis Kahn's original 1965 design; the squabble over a Tyrannosaurus rex fossil discovered on a South Dakota ranch in 1990; and John Ruskin
's torching of J.M.W. Turner's erotic sketchbook. Other cases include the Nixon papers and Lady Churchill's destruction of an unflattering portrait of Winston. In controversies over private papers (of President Harding, Kafka, Salinger, Malamud, Joyce, Martin Luther King Jr., etc.), Sax advocates public access, but--recognizing "the real costs that unmitigated probing of private matters can engender"--gives wide latitude to creators themselves, and some even to their heirs. He throws down a gauntlet to librarians, curators and archivists, however: material should either be closed to everyone for a reasonable period, or open to all adults. It's a stirring argument. Photos. (Aug.)
's torching of J.M.W. Turner's erotic sketchbook. Other cases include the Nixon papers and Lady Churchill's destruction of an unflattering portrait of Winston. In controversies over private papers (of President Harding, Kafka, Salinger, Malamud, Joyce, Martin Luther King Jr., etc.), Sax advocates public access, but--recognizing "the real costs that unmitigated probing of private matters can engender"--gives wide latitude to creators themselves, and some even to their heirs. He throws down a gauntlet to librarians, curators and archivists, however: material should either be closed to everyone for a reasonable period, or open to all adults. It's a stirring argument. Photos. (Aug.)
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