by Alan Todd | Jul 16, 2022 | Opinion
I well remember the Sydney Olympics and the unlicensed use of music between every point during the beach volleyball. The much-vaunted ‘best games ever’ seemed to have a mandate to do whatever it wanted when it came to violating copyright and they were not...
by Alan Todd | Jun 14, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
It would seem that Banksy shot himself in the foot in stating that ‘copyright Is for losers’. The European Union Intellectual Property Office also cited his anonymity as a factor in not being able to control the use and distribution of his work. If your work is...
by Alan Todd | Apr 25, 2021 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion
If we had to list the world’s problems we might include climate change, pollution, over population and the endless squabbles over who should be in charge but in the real world of cake manufacture and copyright the priorities are quite different. Just when you think...
by Alan Todd | Oct 25, 2020 | Art, Artist, Artwork, Opinion, Painting
Recently an artist on FB asked if making a study/copy of an artist’s work was a breach of copyright and someone else added that you would end up in jail if you did. This generated pages of comments which in some cases labelled every art student a forger and every...
