SENIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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Leadership and Management
in Different Arts and Fields
Quarter 4 – Module 5

Basic Laws Governing

Arts and Culture

SELF-LEARNING KIT
 Hello dear learners! I will guide you ask you go through this
Self-Learning Kit (SLK). This SLK was designed and written
with you in mind. The following are some reminders in using
this module:

1. Use the module with care. Do not put unnecessary mark/s on any part
of the module. Use a separate sheet of paper in answering the exercises.
2. It is illegal to copy, duplicate nor publish in any means any part of the
module without permission from the author. You are prohibited to
upload or share your answers online or in any communication
platforms.
3. Answer all activities included in the module.
4. Read the instruction carefully before doing each task.
5. Observe honesty and integrity in doing the tasks and checking your
answers.
6. Finish the task at hand before proceeding to the next.
7. Compile your learning modules per subject area. Remember that this
will serve as your notes in studying for the examinations.
8. Make sure to submit your answer sheets on time.

This module was designed to provide you with fun and meaningful
opportunities for guided and independent learning at your own pace and time.
You will be enabled to process the contents of the learning resource while
being an active learner.

Remember, you as a learner is capable and empowered to successfully achieve

the relevant competencies and skills at your own pace and time. Your
academic success lies in your own hands!

If you encounter any difficulty in answering the tasks in this module, do not
hesitate to consult your teacher or facilitator. Always bear in mind that you
are not alone.

We hope that through this material, you will experience meaningful learning
and gain deep understanding of the relevant competencies. You can do it!

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LEARNING COMPETENCIES
 AD_LMA12-IVe-21-22 Complies to the laws-identification of (possible)
violations in their communities
 Identification and reporting of (possible) violations in their communities
of basic constitutional rights: Freedom of Expression, Intellectual
Property Rights, National Heritage Law, Indigenous People’s Rights Law

After going through this SLK, you are expected to:

 Identify the different laws governing arts and culture.
 Identify possible violations of these laws in their communities.
 Create an artwork on awareness of these laws for their community.

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 What’s New
This module will teach the learners to develop awareness and
understanding of the basic laws governing arts and culture and translates
these laws on to practical applications. Ignorance of the law excuses no one
and as future art managers, it is but imperative for Arts and Design learners
to have knowledge on these laws.

What is It

Everyone Needs to Know the Law

Since the law is part of lots of different aspects of society, lots of people
need to know about it, not just lawyers. Knowing about the law is important
in lots of different jobs and careers.

Knowing about the law means you can be careful about not breaking it.

The Role of Law

Long before the Code of Hammurabi set the law for ancient
Mesopotamia, people subjected themselves — sometimes by cooperative
agreement, sometimes under threat of force—to rules that would enable social
and economic activities to be ordered. As societies evolved from close-knit
kinship groups to larger and more diverse communities with more complex
activities, the need for more formal rules increased (Fukuyama 2010).

In modern states, law serves three critical governance roles. First, it is

through law and legal institutions that states seek to order the behavior of
individuals and organizations so economic and social policies are converted
into outcomes. Second, law defines the structure of government by ordering
power—that is, establishing and distributing authority and power among
government actors and between the state and citizens. And third, law also
serves to order contestation by providing the substantive and procedural tools
needed to promote accountability, resolve disputes peacefully, and change the
rules.

It has long been established that the rule of law— which at its core
requires that government officials and citizens be bound by and act
consistently with the law—is the very basis of the good governance needed to
realize full social and economic potential. Empirical studies have revealed the
importance of law and legal institutions to improving the functioning of
specific institutions, enhancing growth, promoting secure property rights,
improving access to credit, and delivering justice in society.

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Freedom of Expression

All four Philippine Constitutions have acknowledged free expression

and press freedom, although this has not always ensured effective protection
of these rights, notably during the Marcos era. Both have always been part of
the Filipinos’ long struggle for freedom and are part of the Philippine
revolutionary tradition.

The Malolos Constitution guaranteed that no Filipino would be deprived

of the right to freely express his ideas or opinions, orally or in writing, through
the use of the press and similar means. American control at the onset of the
20th century brought the US Constitution’s First Amendment into the
Philippine legal system through President William McKinley’s Instructions to
the Second Philippine Commission. Freedom of speech and of the press were
subsequently incorporated into the 1935 Constitution, together with all the
relevant jurisprudence from US and British constitutional cases. The same
provision was largely adopted by the 1973 Constitution.

The People Power Constitution guarantees in Article III – Bill of Rights

– freedom of expression (Section 4), privacy (Section 3) and the right to
information (Section 7).

Section 4 of Article III reads as follows:

No law shall be passed abridging the freedom of speech, of expression,

or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble and
petition the government for redress of grievances.

Article 19 of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights (UDHR)

guarantees the right to freedom of expression in the following terms:

Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right
includes the right to hold opinions without interference and to seek,
receive and impart information and ideas through any media and
regardless of frontiers.

The UDHR, as a UN General Assembly resolution, is not directly binding

on States. However, parts of it, including Article 19, are widely regarded as
having acquired legal force as customary international law since its adoption
in 1948.

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), a

treaty ratified by over 150 States, including the Philippines, imposes formal
legal obligations on State Parties to respect its provisions and elaborates on
many of the rights included in the UDHR. Article 19 of the ICCPR guarantees
the right to freedom of expression in terms very similar to those found at
Article 19 of the UDHR:

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 1. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of opinion.

2. Everyone shall have the right to freedom of expression; this right

shall include freedom to seek, receive and impart information and
ideas of all kinds, regardless of frontiers, either orally, in writing or
in print, in the form of art or through any other media of his choice.

Freedom of expression is also protected in all three regional human

rights instruments, by Article 10 of the European Convention on Human
Rights, Article 13 of the American Convention on Human Rights and Article 9
of the African Charter on Human and Peoples’ Rights.

As the UN Human Rights Committee has said: “The right to freedom of

expression is of paramount importance in any democratic society.”

Intellectual Property Rights in the Philippines

Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), as intangible assets, are a key factor
in the competitiveness of businesses in the global economy. The Philippines
is developing overarching strategies to strengthen its IP system and to protect
rights holders. In an increasingly globalizing environment, IPRs constitute key
considerations for businesses to maintain their competitive advantages.

The Philippines has developed a comprehensive IP legal framework and

has exerted significant efforts to strengthen its campaign against
counterfeiting and piracy. In particular, the legal and policy structures in the
Philippines are being strengthened through laws that are responsive to the
contemporary technological environment

Moreover, the capabilities of enforcement agencies are also being

enhanced to ensure more effective management of IPR-related issues. The
judicial sector is also being trained to familiarize itself with the more technical
aspects of IPR.

Nevertheless, the threat of IP violations in the country remains. IPR

infringement still represents a major concern for businesses dealing with The
Philippines because the damages caused by infringement can lead to a
significant loss of revenue and competitive advantage. IPR infringements can
even cause damage to the reputation of the concerned company.

The Philippine authorities are aware of the significant challenges that a

weak protection of IP assets poses to the national economy. The Republic Act
No. 8293 or the Intellectual Property Code of the Philippines (the "IP
Code") recognizes that an effective intellectual property system is vital to; the
development of domestic and creative activity, facilitating the transfer of
technology, attracting foreign investments, and ensuring market access for
products.

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 Thus, it has become a state policy to streamline administrative
procedures for registering patents, trademarks and copyright, to liberalize the
registration on the transfer of technology, and to enhance the enforcement of
intellectual property rights in the Philippines.

The Basics of IPRs in the Philippines

A. Copyrights

What are Copyrights?

Copyright is a legal term used to describe exclusive rights granted to

authors, artists and other creators for their creations. The IP Code extends
legal protection in the form of copyright to the owner of the rights of an
original work, such as books, pamphlets, and illustrations including the
works listed in Section 172 of the IP Code.

Works are protected from the moment of their creation, irrespective of

their mode or form of expression, content, quality and purpose.

The IP Code defines “author” as the person who has created the work.
Therefore, when applying for copyright registrations in the Philippines, the
author of the work indicated must be a natural person.

There are two (2) types of rights under the copyright system of the
Philippines:

 Economic Rights
Economic rights consist of the exclusive right of the creator or author
of a work to carry out, authorize or prevent acts such as the reproduction of
the work (e.g. photocopying a book or copying a DVD), public performance of
the work (e.g. playing copyrighted songs in public areas), or transformation of
the work (e.g. adaptation of a book to a movie).

 Moral Rights
Moral rights entitle the author or creator to take measures to protect
the connection between himself and the work, which includes the right to:
1) Require authorship of the works be attributed to him;
2) Make alterations to his work prior to, or withhold it from, publication;
3) Object to any distortion, mutilation or other modification of, or other
derogatory action in relation to, his work; and
4) Restrain the use of his name with respect to any work not of his own
creation or in a distorted version of his work.

Moral rights are independent of economic rights. These are not

assignable and may be subject to a license.

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 The fair use of a copyrighted work for criticism, comment, news
reporting, teaching (including a limited number of copies for classroom use),
research, and similar purposes is not an infringement of copyright in the
Philippines. In determining fair use, the following are considered:

a) The purpose and character of the use, including whether such use is
of a commercial nature or is for non-profit educational purposes;
(b) The nature of the copyrighted work;
(c) The amount and substantiality of the portion used in relation to the
copyrighted work as a whole; and
(d) The effect of the use upon potential market for or value of the
copyrighted work.

To strengthen the provisions of the IP Code, Republic Act No. 10372

(the IP Code amendment) was enacted in 2013 and, among others, initiated
the following:

 Establishment of the Bureau of Copyright, which has policy

formulation, rule making and adjudication functions to serve copyright
based industries;
 Grant of visitorial powers to the IPO, which allows IPO to act on
complaints or reports and visit establishments that violate IP rights,
including copyrights; and
 Introduction of landlord liability, that is, owners of establishments or
malls may now be held liable for copyright infringement if, after being
given notice, they allow and benefit from the copyright infringing
activities of stalls or shops in their establishments/malls.

How long does legal protection last?

Introduction of landlord liability, that is, owners of establishments or
malls may now be held liable for copyright infringement if, after being given
notice, they allow and benefit from the copyright infringing activities of stalls
or shops in their establishments/malls.

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 B. Patents

Patents (also known as "Letter Patents" in the Philippines) are defined

as rights granted to an inventor of a technical solution of a problem in any
field of human activity that is:

• NEW
• involves an INVENTIVE STEP
• and is INDUSTRIALLY APPLICABLE.

A patent confers its owner the exclusive right to restrain, prohibit and
prevent any unauthorized person or entity from making, using, offering for
sale, selling or importing the patented product.

If the subject matter of the patent is a process, then the right granted
is the right to restrain, prohibit and prevent any unauthorized person or entity
from using the process, and from manufacturing, dealing in, using, selling or
offering for sale, or importing any products obtained directly or indirectly from
such process.

The Philippines follows the first-to-file rule, meaning that when two or
more applications are filed for the same invention, the right to the patent will
belong to the applicant who has the earliest filing or priority date.

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 The following are not patentable in the Philippines:

1) Discoveries, scientific theories and mathematical methods;

2) Schemes, rules and methods of performing mental acts, playing
games or doing business, and programs for computers;
3) Methods for treatment of the human or animal body by surgery or
therapy and diagnostic methods practiced on the human or animal
body. This provision shall not apply to products and composition for
use in any of these methods;
4) Plant varieties, animal breeds, or essentially any biological process
for the production of plants or animals. This provision shall not apply
to micro-organisms and non-biological and microbiological processes.
5) Aesthetic creations; and
6) Anything which is contrary to public order or morality.

Chemical compositions are patentable. However, under the

amendments introduced by the Cheaper Medicines Act to the IP Code, the
following are excluded from patent protection:

 a new form or new property of a known substance which does not result
in the enhancement of the known efficacy of that substance
 a new property or new use for a known substance, or the mere use of a
known process unless such known process results in a new product
that employs at least one new reactant

This means that while pharmaceuticals are patentable, second use of

known drugs and medicines are not patentable in the Philippines. Also, new
forms of known drugs that are not significantly different with regard to efficacy
are not patentable. Examples provided are salts, esters, ethers, polymorphs,
metabolites, pure form, particle size, isomers, mixtures of isomers, complexes,
combinations, and other derivatives of a known substance.

Likewise, methods for treatment of the human body by surgery or

therapy and diagnostic methods practiced on the human body are not
patentable.

Biological materials are patentable except for plants and animals. Plant
varieties are not patentable but can be protected under the Plant Variety
Protection Act of 2002 [Republic Act No. 9168].

Licensing of all forms of intellectual property rights including patent,

fall under the definition of ‘technology transfer arrangements’ (TTAs) under
the IP Code. TTAs must contain certain mandatory provisions and exclude
certain prohibited clauses in order to be enforceable.

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Other Types of Patents

Utility Models

An invention that lacks inventiveness but is new and industrially

applicable may be registered as a utility model.

Utility model registrations are relatively quicker to obtain compared to

securing Letters Patent. The rights and remedies granted to patentees are also
granted to owners of utility model registrations. Thus entities with patentable
innovations may opt to register the innovation as a utility model in order to
secure quicker protection of their IP assets.

How long does legal protection last?

An invention that lacks inventiveness but is new and industrially

applicable may be registered as a utility model.

Utility model registrations are relatively quicker to obtain compared to

securing Letters Patent. The rights and remedies granted to patentees are also
granted to owners of utility model registrations. Thus entities with patentable
innovations may opt to register the innovation as a utility model in order to
secure quicker protection of their IP assets.

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C. Industrial Designs

What are industrial designs?

An industrial design is any composition of shape, lines, colors, or a

combination thereof, or any three-dimensional form, whether or not
associated with shape, lines, or colors, which produce an aesthetic and
ornamental effect in their tout ensemble or when taken as a whole. Provided,
that such composition or form gives a special appearance to and can serve
as pattern for an industrial product or handicraft. Industrial products
include articles of manufacture that belong to the useful or practical art, or
any part including thereof, which can be made and sold separately.

An industrial design must be any new or original creation relating to

the ornamental features of shape, configuration, form, or combination
thereof, of an article of manufacture, whether or not associated with lines,
patterns or colors, which impart an aesthetic and pleasing appearance to the
article.

Industrial designs can also be protected in the Philippines and owners

of industrial design registrations possess the same rights and remedies as
patentees under the IP Code.

The following industrial designs shall not be registrable:

1) Industrial designs that are dictated essentially by technical or

functional considerations to obtain a technical result;
2) Industrial designs which are mere schemes of surface
ornamentations existing separately from the industrial product or
handicraft; and
3) Industrial designs which are contrary to public order, health, or
morals

How long does legal protection last?

An industrial design registration is valid for a period of five (5) years

from the date of the application and is renewable for two consecutive five (5)
year periods by paying the renewal fee. The maximum total duration is fifteen
(15) years.

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D. Trade Marks

A trade mark is any visible sign capable of distinguishing the goods

(trade mark) or services (service mark) of an enterprise and can include a
stamped or marked container of goods.

The IP Code highlights marks that cannot be registered, this may

consist of:
 immoral, deceptive or scandalous matters
 the flag or coat of arms or other insignia of the Philippines, any of its
political subdivisions or that of a foreign nation, or any simulation
thereof;
 a name, portrait or signature identifying a particular living individual
except by his written consent;
 shapes that may be necessitated by technical factors or by the nature
of the goods themselves or factors that affect their intrinsic value;
 something contrary to public or morality;
 color, or a combination of colors alone, cannot be registered, unless
defined by a given form.

Three-dimensional marks and collective marks can be registered.

Certification marks, associated marks or series of marks are not applicable in
the Philippines.

Applications are subjected to formality and substantive examination.

Opposition prior to registration is possible. This gives the trade mark owner
the opportunity to oppose the registration of a mark that is identical or
confusingly similar to their trademarks.

The Philippines follows the first-to-file rule. Therefore, identical

applications may be objected to in view of a prior application/ registration.
Nevertheless, a party showing superior right (through prior use or prior
registration in a different jurisdiction) over the mark may oppose the prior
application. Cancellation of a prior registration, although costly, is also
available.

How long does legal protection last?

Ten (10) years from registration date, subject to filing of Declaration of

Actual Use within three (3) years from application filing date and within one
(1) year from the 5th anniversary of the registration date. The registration may
be renewed for periods of ten (10) years.

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National Heritage Law

Republic Act No. 10066, which provides for the Protection and
Conservation of the National Cultural Heritage, Strengthening the National
Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) and its Affiliated Cultural
Agencies, and for Other Purposes was signed by then President Gloria
Macapagal-Arroyo on 26 March 2010.

The drafting of this Omnibus Cultural Heritage Law, otherwise known

as the Philippine Cultural Heritage Act, aimed to provide for the protection,
preservation and promotion of the nation’s tangible and intangible cultural
heritage. The final version signed into law in March 26, 2010 was the product
of almost eight working versions since 1994. It is an intensive output that
consolidates all the pending bills in both the senate and the House of
Representatives relative to the protection and preservation efforts on
Philippine Culture and the Arts making RA No. 10066 an ‘omnibus cultural
heritage law’.

Through Article VIII, Sections 31 & 32, the bill defines the sharing of
responsibilities among the concerned government agencies and the private
sector, maximizing the NCCA network of interfaced public and private support
for protection of the national heritage.

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 The Bill emphasizes the need to strengthen the police power of the
NCCA and the Cultural Agencies in deputizing local and national law
enforcement agencies. The NCCA, through its attached cultural agencies, has
the authority to enforce cease and desist order at any needed time thanks to
Article VII on Deputizing the police, military, NBI, coast guard and the like,
on Cease and Desist Order and Visitorial Power.

Registration and Conservation of Cultural Property and National

Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage

Article V defines the registration and conservation of cultural property,

and Section 19, Inventory of Intangible Cultural Heritage was introduced to
address the collaborative efforts of the Commission and the UNESCO National
Committee (UNACOM) in handling the concerns of intangible heritage in
accordance with the UNESCO directives.

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 Other highlights include:
 A redefinition of cultural properties to encompass tangible and
intangible properties (Article III);
 The maximization of the NCCA network of interfaced public and
private support or protection of the national heritage;
 The designation of Heritage Zones to enhance sense of place; and
to protect both cultural properties and histories (Article IV); and
 The use of sustained cultural education, through the national
formal and non-formal schooling, as well as the informal
programs run by local governments, in order to generate people
support for conservation (Article X).

Note that private ownership of cultural properties, even National

Treasures, is respected, and that the government continues to use as many
of its agencies, their budgets and personnel to conserve private properties.

Indigenous People’s Rights Laws

Illustrations by TINTIN LONTOC https://cnnphilippines.com/life/culture/2018/10/29/young-indigenous-leaders.html

In the Philippines, Indigenous People (IP) are commonly referred to as

katutubo. In Mindanao they are collectively called Lumad to separate them
from the Islamized ethnic groups in the region (Arquiza, 2016). The legal
definition is provided by Republic Act No. 8371 otherwise known as “An Act
to Recognize, Protect and Promote the Rights of Indigenous Cultural
Communities/Indigenous Peoples, Creating a National Commission on
Indigenous Peoples, Establishing Implementing Mechanisms, Appropriating
Funds Therefor, and for other Purpose.” Chapter 2 Section 3 (h) of R.A. 8371
refers to IPs as synonymous with Indigenous Cultural Communities or ICC,
and defines them as having the following qualifications:

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 a. A group of people or homogenous societies identified by self-
ascription and ascription by others, who have continuously lived as
an organized community on communally-bounded and defined
territory;
b. Those who have, under claims of ownership since time immemorial,
occupied, possessed and utilized such territories, sharing common
bonds of language, customs, traditions and other distinctive cultural
traits;
c. Those who have, through resistance to political, social and cultural
inroads of colonization, non-indigenous religions and cultures,
become historically differentiated from the majority of Filipinos;
d. Peoples who are regarded as indigenous on account of their descent
from the populations that inhabited the country at the time of
conquest or colonization, or of inroads of non-indigenous religions
and cultures, or the establishment of present state boundaries;
e. People who retain some or all of their own social, economic, cultural
and political institutions; and
f. People who may have been displaced from their traditional domains
or who may have resettled outside their ancestral domains.

Republic Act No. 8371 otherwise known as “The Indigenous Peoples’

Rights Act of 1997” is an act that aims to recognize, protect and promote the
rights indigenous cultural communities/indigenous peoples, creating a
national commission on indigenous peoples, establishing implementing
mechanisms, appropriating funds thereof, and addressing other purposes.
The following State Policies are indicated in the Act, as follows:
a) The State shall recognize and promote the rights of ICCs/IPs within
the framework of national unity and development;
b) The State shall protect the rights of ICCs/IPs to their ancestral
domains to ensure their economic, social and cultural well-being and shall
recognize the applicability of customary laws governing property rights or
relations in determining the ownership and extent of ancestral domain;
c) The State shall recognize, respect and protect the rights of ICCs/IPs
to preserve and develop their cultures, traditions and institutions. It shall
consider these rights in the formulation of national laws and policies;
d) The State shall guarantee that members of the ICCs/IPs, regardless
of sex, shall equally enjoy the full measure of human rights and freedoms
without distinction or discrimination;
e) The State shall take measures, with the participation of the ICCs/IPs
concerned, to protect their rights and guarantee respect for their cultural
integrity, and to ensure that members of the ICCs/IPs benefit on equal footing
from the rights and opportunities that national laws and regulations grant to
other members of the population; and

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 f) The State recognizes its obligations to respond to the strong
expression of the ICCs/IPs for cultural integrity by assuring maximum ICC/IP
participation in the direction of education, health, as well as other services of
ICCs/IPs, in order to render such services more responsive to the needs and
desires of these communities.

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 What’s More

Activity 1: Identify

Identify and explain using your own words the different laws governing arts
and culture presented in the module. Then, identify at least two (2) possible
violations of these laws in your community.
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Possible violations:
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Possible violations:
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Possible violations:
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4. _______________________________
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Possible violations:
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 What I Can Do

Awareness Through Art

Choose one (1) law governing arts and culture presented in this module.
Create an artwork of your choice to raise awareness of that law for your
community.

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 What I Have Learned

Let me know what you have learned in this

module by completing the paragraph below.

I have learned that ____________________________________________

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Assessment
Write a short paragraph explanation of why laws are important in arts and
culture.
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References

Boquiren, Laya. Leadership and Management in the Arts. Quezon: Vibal Group,
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https://www.dlsu.edu.ph/wp-content/uploads/pdf/sdrc/books/ubcheamodule-
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study.pdf

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Profile.pdf
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celebration
The cover in this module is from freepik.com.

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 DISCLAIMER
I do not own or license any copyright rights in the texts, images,
photographs, graphics and other content provided in this self-learning
kit (SLK). I created this SLK solely for non-commercial, informational
and educational purposes. There is no intention on my part to claim
ownership as to the contents or make profit out of this SLK.
Prepared by: Joanne Y. Cutamora
SHS Faculty
Mandaue City School for the Arts
April 2021

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