INIS Series: Online Series of the Interdisciplinary Scientific Network - Information Society

Title:

"Copyright is for Losers" or Not at All!?

Autor(s):

Hristo Hristov, "St. Cyril and St. Methodius" Univercity of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, kristo17@abv.bg

Abstact:

    The article directs its integral scope to the current state and interaction of several seemingly not so relative objects of research and analysis. The starting point in the title is the catchphrase "Copyright is for losers" (Dazed, n. d.) attributed to the world-famous artist Banksy, reflecting a position expressed in the past, regarding copyright. Another essential component is the very mechanisms for the protection of intellectual property, both with their formal relation to contemporary art and as an object of interaction with individual creative activity. So that the case of Banksy does not remain as some eccentric exception, we draw attention to another very current case, presenting the posthumous problems of the famous Andy Warhol with the legal mechanisms for protection of the artistic creativity. The integral circle closes with an emphasis on the unifying meaning and formal character of the works concerned, with the clarification that this text has a special relation to the needs of art studies and a specialized focus on the art of printmaking.

Keywords:

Banksy, Andy Warhol, Lynn Goldsmith, Printmaking, Screen Printing, Copyright, Intellectual Property, Trademarks, Fair Use, Appropriation Art,

PDF file

PDF file address:

http://www.math.bas.bg/vt/inis/series/book/2023.02/inis.2023.0208.pdf

Cite (APA style):

Hristov, H. (2023). "Copyright is for Losers" or Not at All!?, INIS Series, 2023, volume 2, ISSN 2815-4231, Institute of Mathematics and Informatics – Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 107-121.