The challenging relationship between contemporary art and copyright

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dc.contributor.authorSawyer, Matthewen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorKarjiker, Sadullaen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2021-11-12T11:35:23Z
dc.date.available2021-11-12T11:35:23Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.descriptionCITATION: Sawyer, M. & Karjiker, S. 2019. The challenging relationship between contemporary art and copyright. South African Law Journal, 136(4):650-675.en_ZA
dc.descriptionThe original publication is available at https://journals.co.zaen_ZA
dc.description.abstractThis article seeks to address the current wording of the definition of ‘artistic work’ in the Copyright Act 98 of 1978. It is argued that such wording has failed to aid courts in interpreting it in a way that allows for a broadening of its scope so as to include new art forms — most importantly, for this article, multimedia installations. Analysis of the Copyright Act’s definition of ‘artistic work’ is applied to four contemporary and prominent multimedia installation artworks to determine whether such creations would fall within this definition. The outcome of this analysis shows that, although certain multimedia installation creations are provided protection under the current definition, there are artworks that do not satisfy the requirements under this definition. It is thus proposed in this article that certain amendments should be made to the Copyright Act that will afford such excluded artistic works copyright protection. Finally, this article conducts an analysis of the possible adverse effects that could arise should such amendments be effected to the wording of the Copyright Act in terms of the requirements of materiality and originality. Through the application of these two requirements to further examples of multimedia installation artworks, the conclusion is reached that these requirements would not render the proposed amendments superfluous or problematic.en_ZA
dc.description.urihttps://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/EJC-1b0a9afe38
dc.description.versionPublisher's versionen_ZA
dc.format.extent26 pagesen_ZA
dc.identifier.citationSawyer, M. & Karjiker, S. 2019. The challenging relationship between contemporary art and copyright. South African Law Journal, 136(4):650-675en_ZA
dc.identifier.issnSouth African Law Journalen_ZA
dc.identifier.issn0038-2388 (print)
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/123437
dc.language.isoen_ZAen_ZA
dc.publisherJuta Lawen_ZA
dc.rights.holderJuta Lawen_ZA
dc.subjectCopyright -- Arten_ZA
dc.subjectArt, modern -- 21st centuryen_ZA
dc.subjectCopyright subsistenceen_ZA
dc.subjectMultimedia installations (Art)en_ZA
dc.titleThe challenging relationship between contemporary art and copyrighten_ZA
dc.typeArticleen_ZA
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