Archive for the intellectual property Tag

Moral Rights: The Right to Destroy Artwork

It was reported in the Singapore press that several pieces of art work had been missing after the building owners renovated their premises. Some, if not all, might have been destroyed in the course of renovation. Is there anything that the artists can do to prevent this or at least salvage their art work for display elsewhere?

Releases And Photographs

The requirement for releases is an area of law that is controversial and unsettling among the legal and photography professionals. The difficulty is that it is not always easy to draw the fine line between what is newsworthy and what is not.

Artist Dealership Contracts

Often young unestablished artists are unable to secure deals or representation with established galleries. So they have to turn to non-gallery-owning dealers for agency deals. The likely problem areas when negotiating an appropriate contract in such situations are examined in this article.

Online Licensing Issues

This article focuses on legal issues arising in licensing agreements between service providers that aggregate information from various sources (both from the Internet and otherwise) and create products based on the results of such aggregation for commercial distribution to clients.

Law As Art?

An intriguing article about using law as an integral element in artworks.