Tag Archives: history of copyright

Copyright and lessons from the past

Posted on: June 10, 2019 by Emily Gould

Dr Elena Cooper is an IAL member and the author of Art and Modern Copyright: The Contested Image (CUP, 2018). She will be speaking at a forthcoming IAL Study Forum on 29th June 2019. In the meantime, she writes below on the intriguing topic of the development of copyright law, and how it reflects changes […]

Copyright in AI works – what can we learn from our forebears?

Posted on: November 14, 2018 by Emily Gould

  Readers of this blog will have seen the post last week about Portrait of Edmond de Belamy, a piece of computer generated art created by the Obvious Collective through Artificial Intelligence, which recently sold at auction for USD 432,500. Amongst the challenges posed by AI technology for copyright law, is the question of how […]

Art and Copyright: what can we learn from the past?

Posted on: October 29, 2018 by Emily Gould

Who does the modern law of copyright seek to protect? We are familiar today with the claim that artistic copyright protects artists and, perhaps, users of copyright works. Roll back 150 years, to the nineteenth century, and artistic copyright was also understood in a number of other ways, which are long forgotten today. For instance, […]