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Copyright Law and the Myth of Objectivity: The Idea-Expression Dichotomy and the Inevitability of Artistic Value Judgments

Amy B. Cohen

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On July 12, 1989, the House of Representatives voted to cut the amount it had appropriated for 1990 for the National Endowment for the Arts ("NEA").'The reduction was made in order to express, congressional disapproval of two projects which the NEA had previously funded: the photography of Robert Mapplethorpe, whose work was criticized for its homoerotic and sexual content

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Key concepts: Objectivity (philosophy), Value (mathematics), Mythology, Copyright law, Expression (computer science), Statute, Law, Copyright infringement