2019•Edward Elgar Publishing eBooksOpen access
The artist and the artwork
The term ‘graphic work’ includes (a) any painting, drawing, diagram, map, chart or plan and (b) any etching, lithograph, woodcut or similar work (s 4(2)(b)).
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Abstract
When an artist produces a work he or she creates something uniquea combination of the artist's imagination and a tangible way of expressing that imaginative idea.The artist also invests labour and time in the work.Just as an inventor of a new technology needs legal protection to prevent others copying and making use of his new invention, so too an artist needs legal protection to allow him or her to control the use by others of the fruits of his or her own creativity.This has never been more important than in the internet age, where reproduction, editing and distribution of images is so easy and widespread.
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