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'Consultation with Artists and Copyright Law: A UK Perspective': This paper outlines the position of artists' contribution to formulation of copyright laws in the UK. Digital technology brought `authors' opportunities for creativity like never before but also posed important hurdles for the doctrines of copyright and moral rights. It prompted legislative developments at international level to strengthen existing copyright law in favour of right holders, while moral rights remained acknowledged but ignored; and also led to an extensive theoretical debate in the academic world, which continues till today. The focus in both legislative developments and academic literature has remained around technical issues of digitization, concerns of businesses and economic efficiency, effects on cultural and social aspects of society and balance between private rights and larger public interest. Remarkably, there aren't sufficient empirical studies to back such claims. More importantly, despite the excuse of "protection of authors" being used to bring in legislative changes and "nature of authorship" being discussed widely in the literature, the voices of the "authors" remain absent. Both, the strong need for empirical research in this area and the potential for such studies to make a significant contribution to existing theoretical knowledge have been pointed out but remain unaddressed. This paper first outlines the studies carried out in the UK in the last decade involving artists or addressing their perspective in relation to the copyright and related rights as outlined above. It summarizes the nature and objectives of the same and also points out how such empirical studies remain few and far between. Second, the paper also outlines the contribution of and representation from artists to the major government consultations on copyright and related laws in the UK.| Period | Mar 2008 |
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| Event type | Conference |
| Location | Manchester, United KingdomShow on map |