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Lost in Translation
Plagiarism and copyright infringement are often misunderstood as being the same, but are not: they may overlap, but are separate wrongs. Plagiarism is a violation of ethical norms and policies, typically in academic and professional disciplines, but…
Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts
On 29 May 2025 Cambridge University Press published the sixth edition of Law, Ethics and the Visual Arts (LEVA), a foundational text in the field of art and law first published in 1979. At…
US Art Import Tariffs
President Trump triggered a global financial crisis in April 2025, when he issued Executive Order 14257 ‘Regulating Imports With a Reciprocal Tariff To Rectify Trade Practices That Contribute to Large and Persistent Annual United States Goods…
A Complete Unknown
The 97th Oscar awards were presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences on 2 March 2025 in Los Angeles, honouring movies released in 2024. Nominated in eight Oscar categories, A Complete Unknown is a…
Copyrightability
Many governments worldwide are currently seeking to keep pace with the impact – on their economies, infrastructures and industries – of AI developments and innovations. In the visual art ecosystem, two challenging issues are being faced: whether AI generated…
Copyright and AI Consultation
The year is barely a month old and already 2025 is being variously described by digital technologists worldwide as: ‘A Year of AI Hype and Quiet Evolution’, ‘Maybe the Year of AI Legislation: Will We See…
Smarter Artists’ Funding
The UK’s Autumn Budget 2024 promulgated government’s fiscal policies and plans aimed at establishing economic foundations for its mission of ‘national renewal’ over the next five years. Many suggestions and proposals have been made in recent months…
Ladies Lounge
The history of modern and contemporary western art and law is punctuated with rare court decisions demonstrating extraordinary understanding of the content of artwork, and respect for the artist’s creative intentions. One such case was decided recently, and…
Disclosure of Buyers
High profile artists rarely speak publicly about the commercial dimensions of their practices. It is significant, then, that a leading British artist, the usually reticent Peter Doig, recently voiced concerns about the way artists can be mistreated…
Store-To-Own
The first Zero Art Fair in Upstate New York was scheduled to last four days in July 2024, but lasted only two, because nearly all the exhibited artworks were taken away by collectors – who paid no money to…
40 Years of Collecting
During 2024, the UK’s Design and Artists Copyright Society, DACS, celebrates forty years of operations. DACS is a not for profit share rights management organisation that champions, protects and manages the intellectual property rights of visual…
Ties That Bind
A recently filed lawsuit focuses on whether it is lawful for an exclusive trader of goods to sell only to would be buyers deemed suitable. The eventual outcome of the case may have significance for the way…
This Is Not by Me
Keith Haring’s last canvas painting continues to be the focus of intense social media controversy in these first months of 2024, triggered by an X tweeted image of the work’s purported completion using generative AI…
Freedom and Creativity
2024 started with publication of a seminal judicial decision confirming that UK copyright law’s originality test – for creating a copyright protected new artwork – requires the expression of personal creativity by the author; and that this…
To Have and Not To Hold
In November 2023 art market media focused on an original street artwork attributed to Banksy, and particularly on doubts cast over the legality of the work’s fractionalisation scheme, its true authorship and provenance of…
Impact of the Online Safety Bill on visual arts practice
The Online Safety Bill is the latest in a series of very concerning Bills proposed by the UK Government that threaten freedom of expression, such as the new Policing Act…
Don’t Delete Art
Given the understandable reliance by most of the world on digital technology for communications throughout the annus horribilis of 2020 (and its continuation into 2021, with no certain prospect of escape from Covid restrictions), social media platforms…
As a self-employed artist, will the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) affect me?
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), effective from 25th May 2018, is a hot topic amongst businesses at present, and this FAQ offers key points about if and how…