Conference: Contemporary Art and Copyright: Copyright or Right to Copy?

Avid Clancco reader and art law attorney Elisa Vittone just e-mailed us with information concerning a conference on copyright and contemporary art, which she claims is the “first conference in Italy concerning the relationship between Contemporary Art and Law.” Among the participants are the Director of Artissima, the Curator of the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, the Director of Contemporary Art Department of Christie’s, the Head of Hogarth Chambers London, the President of Turin Court of Appeal. The conference, Contemporary Art and Copyright: Copyright or right to copy?, will take place on March 11, 2010, in Turin, Italy.

From the press release:

In 2010, the National Gallery, London and the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris organised exhibits, which called concepts of uniqueness, originality and authenticity into question.?How can the law settle this? How far is artists’ freedom willing to go? Does a uniform application of resale right really operate in the EU? ?What impact will the Dalì decision of the European Court of Justice have in the EU State Members? For the first time, SIAE (Italian collecting society) and DACS (the English one) will talked about the much-discussed resale rights discipline in EU.

Program information below!

PROGRAM

COPYRIGHT OR RIGHT TO COPY

14.00 Registration

14.20 LUCA BEATRICE?President of Circolo dei Lettori

Welcome

14.30 ?ELISA VITTONE?IP Lawyer – Law Firm Saglietti & Partners ?Introduction

14.40 ?FRANCESCO MANACORDA?Director of Artissima ?Right of Reply? The Reasons of re-enactment in Contemporary Art

15.00 ?MARIO BARBUTO?President of Torino Court of Appeal ?Legal Requirements of Protection of a Work of Art according to Italian Law

15.20 ?JUDITH ICKOWICZ?Chargée de Cours Univerisité Paris 1 – Ancien Avocat ?The Concept of Work of Art applied to Contemporary Art according to French law

15.40 ?FRANCESCO POLI?Professor at Brera Academy of Fine Arts – Lecturer at Paris University 8 ?Uniqueness and Authenticity of Oeuvres in the History of Contemporary Art

16.00 ?SÉBASTIEN GOKALP?Curator – Musée d’Art Moderne?de la Ville de Paris ?The Exhibition Seconde Main: an Exhibition of “look-alike Works”? ?COFFEE BREAK? ?16.40?CRISTIANO GIULIO SANGIULIANO?Christie’s – Director Dep. Contemporary Art  (Milano) ?Transparency of the Market: the Role of Auctions

17.00?MARINA ANNA TAVASSI?President IP Chamber Milano Court ?Infringement in figurative Art and derivative Works

17.20?ALASTAIR WILSON QC?Joint Head of Hogarth Chambers London ?Reproduction of Works of Art in UK

17.40 ?LUIGI CECERE?SIAE – Manager; OLAF Section (Roma)?(Società Italiana Autori ed Editori – Italian Association of Authors and Editors) ?Resale Right in Italy

18.00 ?JEREMY STEIN?Director of Services, Design and Artists Copyright Society (DACS)

Resale Right in UK

18.20 ?MASSIMO DI CARLO?President of ANGAMC (Associazione Nazionale delle Gallerie d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea – National Association of Modern and Contemporary Art Gallery) ?Resale Right. A Market Perspective