In the age of smartphone cameras and social media, it seems easier than ever for members of the public to freely share pictures of contemporary art. The copyright police won’t come after you for Instagramming your trip to MoMA, right? But securing permission to reproduce copyrighted images is still a logistical and financial nightmare for many teachers, scholars, reporters, and critics.
Rauschenberg Foundation Joins 21st Century, Embraces Fair Use
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Are Art Professionals Afraid of Fair Use?
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Visual art professionals are not making use of fair use, a new…
Hoping to remedy pervasive and often crippling uncertainty among artists and art professionals over how and when to invoke fair use when dealing with copyrighted materials, the College Art Association (CAA) has released a “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use.” Spearheaded by American University professors and copyright law experts Patricia Aufderheide and Peter Jaszi, the code offers very clear and concise guidelines for artists, scholars, instructors, curators, and editors whose work may involve using others’ artworks.
Richard Prince: Back in Black!
Wikipedia’s fair use symbol transposed onto an image of two books, each comprising the opposing…
A New Way for Artists to Get Paid for Image Use
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Though the internet allows for distributing media and imagery faster and wider than ever before, it has also taken ownership of the image out of the hands of its creators.
Everything Old Is New Again: Native Americans and the New York School
Robert Rauschenberg, untitled print (2000) (© Robert Rauschenberg Foundation/Licensed by VAGA, NY)
When the New York Times reported yesterday that a representative for Feidin Santana, the man who filmed the Walter L. Scott shooting, is requesting that media companies stop airing his client’s video unless they pay a fee, everyone was a little shocked, including Santana.
From the post on A Photo Editor:
I’m sure there will be an appeal, but this is quite a victory for photographers and the judgment is fascinating reading for fair use buffs, What I really found interesting is how badly most people (myself included) interpret the transformation part of appropriating works. Everyone talks about adding value through transformation but the reality is that you must be commenting on the original image or expression in some way.
(via UK Copyright Law Gets Exception for Parody)
A series of updates to UK copyright law are scheduled to go into effect tomorrow, finally allowing for the use of copyrighted material in the creation of parody, the BBC reported. The country’s copyright law does not currently include a fair use (“fair dealing,” in British parlance) exception for satire, an omission that’s left many artists, musicians, and others vulnerable to legal action.
