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To have that right, first there must be an opportunity

Banning public performances, as banning ownership in circulating collections in libraries (see the discussion with Mark, below), deprives people of the opportunity to make up their own mindsand express their opinions in a clear way.

If an organization open to the public offers a creative work for display, broadcast, screening, borrowing, or what-have-you, and the public decides to stay away, that's public disapproval. If that organization, based on the personal opinion of one of its officials, declines to offer the work for consideration, that's the public not being allowed to express approval, disapproval, or indifferece because one person's opinion took prescendence over their opportunity.

Regards--
Mary Anne

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