Show Business Law or Mexican Economy 1870 1930

Show Business Law: Motion Pictures, Television, Video

Author: Peter Muller

This comprehensive work provides a thorough discussion of the procedures, timing, and agreements used in the motion picture, television, and video industries. Written in an easy-to-understand style, the book functions as a hands-on guide to the contracts used in show business, providing model contracts and explaining why specific clauses are employed and what the mutual benefits of each may be. Among the topics covered are the personal manager, agent, actor, director, and screen writer agreements; worldwide motion picture distribution and licensing for television; pay-per-view and home video; and endorsements.

Table of Contents:

The Acquisition of Motion Picture Rights by Option
The Personal Manager Agreement
The Agent Agreement
The Actor Agreement
The Screen Writer Agreement
The Producer Agreement
The Director Agreement
Master Recording Use for a Motion Picture and Synchronization Rights
The Motion Picture Distribution Agreement: The Worldwide Pick-Up Deal
The Pay-Per-View Agreement
Licensing Feature Films for Television Syndication
International Coproductions
The Home Video License Agreement
Endorsements
Independent Production Financing
The Attorney and the Accountant
Appendix A: Copyright Registration Forms
Appendix B: Labor Organizations and Associations
Bibliography
Index

See also: Environmental and Safety Auditing or Ready Set Market

Mexican Economy, 1870-1930: Essays on the Economic History of Institutions, Revolution, and Growth

Author: Jeff L Bortz

Until the last decades of the nineteenth century, Mexico faced the twin problems of chronic political instability and slow economic growth. During the period of the Porfirio Díaz dictatorship (1876-1911), however, a series of institutional reforms reignited growth and created rents that enabled the Díaz government to threaten its opponents with military force or to buy them off.

These institutional reforms came out of distinctly political processes, which often had to be brokered among multiple groups of economic elites and regional political bosses. Therefore, they were often structured to encourage investment by specifying property rights or creating streams of rents for particular entrepreneurs. In short, Porfirian Mexico is an excellent natural laboratory in which to investigate not only how institutional change can foment economic growth, but also how specific features of political institutions give rise to specific economic institutions that have both positive and negative effects on growth and distribution.

In fact, the distributional consequences of the Porfirian regime gave rise to the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1917, which produced a further round of dramatic changes in Mexico's political institutions. These changes, in turn, restructured the institutions that governed property rights and those that determined the allocation of rents generated by property rights. This book aims both to identify the crucial institutions and to measure their economic effects.

In addressing these issues, the contributors to this volume employ theoretical insights from the New Institutional Economics and statistical hypothesis-testing as well as traditionalarchival methods. Thus, in addition to advancing the field of Latin American economic history by studying the interaction of political and economic institutions during the period 1870-1930, the book also makes a methodological contribution by using analytic tools not previously employed in the literature.

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Bortz (history, Appalachian State U.) and Haber (history and political science, Stanford U.) 10 articles that study the impact of changing institutions on the performance and nature of the Mexican economy between 1876 and 1930. The purpose is both to understand Mexican history and to use it as an experimental model for understanding the nature of institutional change on economies in general. The 55-year period covered witnessed two major waves of institutional change, the first through the reign of Porfirio Diaz and the second with the coming of the revolution. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)