Who owns Elizabeth Frink?
Elisabeth Frink’s Desert Quartet, 1990, comprises four bronze sculptures commissioned in 1985 by property developers The Avon Group as an integrated external feature of their then new Montague Centre shopping precinct in the coastal town of…
Copyright
What works are covered / protected by copyright? What can I do if my work is used without my permission? When can I use copyright material without permission? How do I get permission to use copyrighted material (film, photography,…
Droit de Suite (1996)
On 13 March 1996 the European Commission published a proposal for a Directive to harmonise the law throughout the 15 member states of the European Union concerning artists’ resale royalty right, often called the ‘droit de…
Conference Consequences
The British Art World is a notoriously diverse and divided community. The Whitechapel Conference organised by Artlaw on Jan 4, 1980, was remarkable in that it attracted an audience made up of a unique cross section of artists…
The Dali Wrangle
Salvador Dali, a master of Surrealism died in 1989. A dozen or so years later his legacy has caused substantial legal problems of an equally surrealist nature. The litigants are the Gala Salvador Dali Foundation established by…
What materials might I not be allowed to work with in my studio?
You must be aware of the ‘permitted uses’ of your studio. Often the landlord will want you to specify the actual nature of your art practice, as…
What if there has been a creative partnership between two artists and one of them wishes to leave?
If one artist leaves the collaboration, can the other artist to continue the work alone? The remaining artist should acknowledge the other…
The Next Moves Forward, part 2
This month’s Artlaw continues and concludes the exploration of the newly elected Government’s past achievements and future policies in relation to the visual arts, and, in the context of joint European cultural, those policies…
Charitable incorporated organisation
A Charitable Incorporated Organisation, or CIO, is a new legal form for a charity, brought in by the 2011 Charities Act. A CIO: is an incorporated form of charity which is not a company only has to…
Fundamental Enquiries
A fundamental problem artists continually bring to Artlaw is the need for basic information and advice on how to set up and maintain a ‘business’ as an artist; it’s a question of survival. It has been the aim…
Travellers Tales
The international nature of art activity involves many artists and administrators visiting foreign countries, particularly during the summer. Autumn heralds the start of the academic year in art schools and sees art students and lecturers returning, often from…
Management Of Creativity 30 Years On
In October 1976 the first issue of Art Monthly carried the first Artlaw column. Have things improved, worsened, or stayed pretty much the same over the last 30 years? From Jennie Lee’s appointment as…
Licensing
Licensing can be a useful way to earn extra income by permitting other uses of your work in exchange for money What is licensing? When you license your work, you are giving permission to someone else to use your…
ArtlawTV
A series of short films exploring the main legal issues that artists face. Each film comprises an interview with an artist about their work, with an overview of the legal implications of their practice by Henry Lydiate, art legal…
Posthumous Artworks
Blinky Palermo’s reputation was given a major boost through retrospective exhibitions in Barcelona and at London’s Serpentine Gallery in 2003. This, in turn, has led to funding recently being achieved by Edinburgh College of Art to ‘rescue’ one…
Collective Bargaining
Last month's column focused on the selling power of those few artists whose works have established a strong market value, and their ability to pick and choose – or blacklist – their purchasers or dealers. To redress the…
National Insurance
Employees and self employed people must also pay National Insurance (NI) as well to pay for benefits and pensions. NI is separate from income tax. It pays specifically for unemployment benefits for yourself if you become unemployed. If…
Money
Income Tax and the achievement and maintenance of self employment or ‘freelance’ status is a recurring theme of these pieces; as is the link between freelance working and claiming welfare benefits (although the names of those benefits have changed…