eca research seminar series
Copyright and Contemporary Art: Challenges
Dr. Smita Kheria, School of Law, University of Edinburgh
Copyright’s struggle with emerging and novel areas of contemporary artistic
practice is evident in existing academic discourse. This talk will explore
how contemporary artworks resist the conventional requirements for copyright
protection: using specific examples to demonstrate the challenges posed to
the notion of originality, the categorisation of works, the requirement for
fixation and the possible reasons underlying any non-protection under the
law.
Smita Kheria, LLB (Hons) University of Buckingham, LLM University of
Cambridge, gained legal experience as a practising advocate in Corporate and
commercial law at the High Court of Calcutta. She undertook her PhD, at
Queen's University Belfast, where her work took a socio-legal approach to
authors' rights under copyright legislation and conducted a qualitative
study exploring digital artists conception of authorship and use of
copyright. She is an associate of SCRIPT <http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/> :
the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology
Law.
Wednesday 23 February 2011, 4.30-5.30 pm
details at: http://www.eca.ac.uk/index.php?id=775
Hunter lecture theatre (O17), Hunter Building
Lauriston Place, Edinburgh EH3 9DF Edinburgh College of Art (eca) is a charity registered in Scotland, number SC009201
