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Digital Access to the Performing Arts: A Comparative Study of Legal and Structural Challenges

Bristol University Press
By Jessica M. Rizzo
March 6, 2026

Jessica M. Rizzo authored several subchapters of Digital Access to the Performing Arts: A Comparative Study of Legal and Structural Challenges, recently published by Bristol University Press. The book is a collaboration between experts in law and the arts at metaLAB at Harvard University. It examines the ways in which the COVID-19 pandemic exposed the shortcomings of digital programming for disabled and marginalized theater audiences and advocates for a new global framework that balances copyright protection with the human right to culture.

Jessica is a member of Ballard Spahr's Antitrust and Competition Group.

The full book is available here.

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