<Emphasis Type="Italic">Peters Edition v. Batt</Emphasis>: The Intertextuality of Silence

The article deals, on the one hand, with a legal conflict between a musical performer/arranger, Mike Batt, and the estate of a composer of avant-garde music, John Cage, over copyright. It is also concerned with the field of intertextuality – how meaning is created in a text or in a work of art, whether it is visual, musical or verbal, through allusions and quotations to previous texts or works of art. The controversy, which did not reach the courts because of a pre-trial settlement, was over an author’s rights to silence, or, as in this case, a silent piece of music. The central issue discussed is the way in which silence may be considered – if at all, to be protectable.     

Schadenersatzreform – Gefährdungshaftung und Unternehmerhaftung

Der Entwurf eines neuen ?sterreichischen Schadenersatzrechts sieht Regelungen der Gef?hrdungshaftung sowie der Unternehmerhaftung vor. Der Beitrag untersucht die jeweilige Ausgangslage, das Reformanliegen und die Konsequenzen einer Reform.     

Tag des Wassers

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The Relationship Between Religious and Spiritual Factors and the Perpetration of Intimate Personal Violence

Despite some understanding of general correlates and possible antecedents to intimate partner violence (IPV) within the Christian community, the impact of religious and spiritual factors tends to be confounded by other factors and is often misjudged. Archival data from Wave III of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health) were used to examine the impact of nine religious and spiritual factors on the probability of IPV perpetration by males, aged 18 to 26, who nominally classified themselves as Catholic, Protestant, or Christian. Logistic regression results indicated that IPV perpetration could not be adequately predicted from the religious and spiritual factors. Given the geographic breadth and the size of the Add Health sample, no finding of a predictive model for Christian male-perpetrated IPV challenges the paradigm that religious and spiritual factors should be overtly addressed in faith-based batterers’ programs targeting young adult males.     

俄罗斯与伊朗关系中的美国因素——剖析俄罗斯在近期伊朗核危机中的表现

俄罗斯在近期伊朗核危机中积极介入并提出妥协方案的原因在于:一方面俄罗斯与美国的地缘政治冲突和分歧,使得俄罗斯与伊朗保持着紧密的联盟关系;另一方面俄罗斯与美国是战略伙伴关系,俄罗斯无力反制美国,俄罗斯外交中存在美国“软肋”。     

行政首长问责制推行的实践与完善建议——基于重庆市的调查研究

重庆市行政首长问责制已实施两年多时间,有力地推进了依法行政,得到了群众拥护和支持,但也存在一些不容忽视的问题。要从重庆市推行行政首长问责制的背景、基本做法,归纳出其主要特点,对如何完善行政问责制提出建议。