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Praxis of the Arts had its first meeting this past Wednesday, with the dual aims of putting together a multidisciplinary conference exploring creativity, social justice, and the law, as well as forming a community of thinkers, artists, and scholars interested in the same.
Moral rights go past copyright to ensure that artists still get to treat artworks like part of their SOUL - even after the piece is sold.
The rights which automatically vest in creators are a poor fit for web-based collaborative projects and works in digital media. Requirements of exclusivity may force an artist to choose between legitimacy in the art world with a corresponding increase in copyright protection, or practical methods for distributing and profiting from their work.
Analysis of SOPA and ACTA coming soon, but first let's take a look at what got us to this point, from the Statute of Anne through the Sonny Bono Term Extension Act.
It's illegal to deface someone else's property without their permission. Interestingly, what’s become illegal lately is cleaning a wall. Not only are there laws on the books that make it illegal to clean graffiti off your own wall, sometimes it's even illegal to clean off the grime.
Art has been losing its moorings in tradition, and this brings out some of the underlying assumptions about what art IS. The art world may be in perpetual debate as to whether the concept or the aesthetics are more important, but it seems generally agreed that art is something beyond the useful, that exists for…
Street artists produce dynamic artworks, in a manner that democratically circumvents the art establishment. The extra-legal and often collaborative nature parallels the free culture "remix culture" ethos. Groups of graffiti artists make changes and additions to one another’s work, resulting in a constantly evolving urban landscape. Interestingly, graffiti often runs afoul of the law just…
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