Art Copyright: Confines in a Digital Space

On September 24th, ArtsTech will host a discussion on matters of copyright and the short and long-term implications for digital artists. It's an issue that has and will continue to work its way into art world affairs (i.e. Richard Prince's New Portraits show at Gagosian consisting of "Instagram paintings" (http://hyperallergic.com/152762/richard-prince-inc/)), especially with the advent of digital platforms and new technologies. Kevin McCoy, art technologist and CEO of Monograph, will be moderating the panel. Panelists are two foremost art lawyers Judith Prowda and Franklin Boyd and artist Sean Fader, whose work was re-appropriated by Richard Prince. Here's some of the questions that will be addressed:

• Is there a successful model of selling digital artwork online that protects artists that exists? If so, what does this look like? If not, what might this look like?

• As an artist, what precautionary steps can be taken to avoid situations of reappropriation?

• How do international laws work for or against artists? Are there countries with stronger protections for artists than others?

Drinks and snacks will be provided.

Schedule:

7:00 pm – Doors open

7:30-8:45pm – Panel discussion followed by a Q&A session

8:45-9:30 pm – Conversation continues

Speakers:

Kevin McCoy (https://twitter.com/mccoyspace), an artist and NYU professor. In 2014 he created Monegraph, an on-line platform for media licensing and attribution.He is the company’s co-founder and Artist/CEO. Working for more than twenty years at the intersection of art and technology, his artwork is in the permanent collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum.

Judith Prowda (http://www.sothebysinstitute.com/Faculty/NewYork/JUDITHBPROWDA.aspx): Judith Prowda is an attorney, mediator and arbitrator focused on art law, copyright, entertainment and commercial law. She is also a senior faculty member of the Art Business Program at Sotheby's Institute of Art, where she teaches graduate courses in Art Law and Ethics and advises Masters Thesis students. Author of Visual Arts and the Law: A Handbook for Professionals (Lund Humphries 2013) and numerous other publications, Judith is a leader in the intellectual property field, and has consulted at Sokolow, Dunaud, Mercadier & Carreras in Paris and at the World Intellectual Property Organization in Geneva. She is Past Chair of the Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Section of the New York State Bar Association, and is Chair of the Section’s Committee on Fine Arts and Co-Founder and Co-Chair of the Committee on Alternative Dispute Resolution. In addition, she is a member of the Art Law Committee of the New York City Bar Association and has served on the Copyright and Literary Property and Entertainment Law Committees.

Franklin Boyd (http://www.sothebysinstitute.com/Faculty/NewYork/FRANKLINBOYD.aspx): An arts attorney with a general commercial practice, Franklin Boyd is also the founder of Xipsy (http://www.xipsy.com/), home of the Negotiated Resale Right for Artists. She teaches art finance, market and law courses at the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and has served on the boards of Art in General, Zer01 and SmartSpaces. Franklin began her legal career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, after having worked in the General Counsel’s office of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (http://www.metmuseum.org/) and for the State Attorney General of New York (http://www.ag.ny.gov/).

Sean Fade (http://www.seanfader.com)r: Sean Fader received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his MA from the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, and his BFA from the New School in New York City. His work has been exhibited throughout the United States and internationally in Dubai, Canada, Mexico and England. Fader was named a NYFA Fellow in 2013 and A Blade of Grass Fellow for 2012-2013, and he received Magenta Foundation’s Flash Forward Award for Emerging Photographers in 2012. Recent exhibitions include Share This! Appropriation After Cynicism at Denny Gallery, New Portraits organized by Richard Prince at Gagosian Gallery, #wishingpelt, performed at Defibrillator Gallery in Chicago (2013), Spring Break Art Show and Pulse Art Fair in New York City (2014), White Boys curated by Hank Willis Thomas and Natasha L. Logan at Haverford College (2013), and Sup?, a solo exhibition at the University of Illinois in Springfield (2014). He has received press coverage in MOMUS, Hyperallergic, Art F City, the Huffington Post, and Slate.com (http://slate.com/). Sean was a recent resident at Yaddo and will be attending Bemis Center for the Arts Residency this coming winter.