Art Copyright Links
Art Copyright Links
- CARCC Canadian Artists Representation Copyright CollectiveThis artist's collective manages the licensing of artwork and copyrights of artists who join CARCC. This allows the artist to concentrate on creating art instead of spending time on business matters. The website comments: "Even after the original work is sold... an artist can continue to generate revenue from a work that has been sold." Date Posted: March 2009
- Art Copyright Coalition This site is supported by home decor companies who create and publish framed artworks. The site includes a slideshow of examples of artwork that has been infringed. They make a good point that taking a copyrighted image and change it slightly is copyright infringement. Although it offers helpful information, the site design is dated, with a Flash animation on the splash page, tiny type and low qualilty images that are pixelated and loaded with compression artifacts. Date Posted: April 2009
- The Fine Art of Copyright This is a timely case study of the grey area of fine artists and copyright. This Wall St. Journal story discusses the famous Shepard Fairey "Hope" poster of Obama, and the less famous photograph by Mannie Garcia that Fairey used without permission. Because this article is on the Wall St. Journal website the link may be become unusable if the WSJ restricts the availability to paying subscribers. Date Posted: April 2009
- Policy Bytes This journal discusses intellectual property from a right wing perspective. This is what Tom Giovanetti has to say about Shepard Fairey's appropriation of Mannie Garcia's Obama photo: "They feel free to take what they want, because, you see, that's really what creativity is. Creativity isn't the hours of work and the years of experience that go into creating the original creative work. Creativity is taking someone's creation and splashing a little yellow paint on it. THAT's creativity. You call it a mash-up, and you're on the cutting edge of creativity, and you are so much more creative than the person who did the original work that they aren't even worth mentioning, unless they have agreed to abandon all their rights and use the borrower's licensing system, Creative Commons." Date Posted: April 2009
- Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey - A critique by artist Mark Vallen A devastating and biting account of Shepard Fairey's wholesale plagiarism. Money quote: "What initially disturbed me about the art of Shepard Fairey is that it displays none of the line, modeling and other idiosyncrasies that reveal an artist’s unique personal style... In fact, I’ve never seen any evidence indicating Fairey can draw at all. Even the art of Andy Warhol, reliant as it was upon photography and mass commercial imagery, displayed passages of gestural drawing and flamboyant brushstrokes. Date Posted: April 2009
- Artists flout copyright law to attack Damien Hirst A 16 year old artist used an image of an artwork by Damien Hirst in a collage, which he uploaded to the internet and sold. Hirst took legal action to protect the copyright to his own work. The young artist was forced to remove his collage from the web and pay Hirst the profits he had made from the sale of the work. A group of artists took offense that Hirst chosen to protect his copyright and started a protest website, creating parodies of the Hirst artwork in question, a skull covered with diamonds. Date Posted: March 2009
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