A Guide to Copyright & Moral Rights in the Art World

Introduction

Copyright-related questions pervade the art world.

Under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 copyright and moral rights apply to a variety of artworks such as paintings, graphic works, photographs, sculptures, collages, and works of artistic craftsmanship.

Whether a work is sold, loaned, photographed for marketing purposes, or reproduced in a catalogue, copyright questions of varying complexity arise.

Key to mastering copyright issues and their implications in a business context is having the ability to foresee and understand them as well as to identify all interested parties.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• How copyright vests in an artist and its duration
• Understanding copyright as a bundle of rights
• Moral rights
• The artist’s resale right
• The distinction between the transfer of ownership in the physical work of art and a transfer of copyright in the same
• Copyright considerations in a commercial context, including acts that do and those that do not require the consent of the copyright holder
• Copyright in new and/or challenging media such as NFTs, AI and performance art

This webinar was recorded on 8th June 2022