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Art and Copyright Law: An Interdisciplinary Study on Interpictoriality book cover

1st Edition

Art and Copyright Law An Interdisciplinary Study on Interpictoriality

By Giulia Walter Copyright 2025
264 Pages
by Routledge

This book tackles the lack of synchronicity between art and copyright law, proposing practical and interdisciplinary tools through which to navigate this conflict. In the last decades, high profile lawsuits have been filed against artists accused of plagiarism including Jeff Koons, Barbara Kruger and Andy Warhol. This book demonstrates how these cases are at odds with contemporary artistic... Read more

Introduction

 

Part I: The Interpictorial Original Copy

1. An Art Historical Novum

 

Part II: The Work, or “The Original”

2. The Fundamentals of the Work

3. Three Axes of Copyright Protection

 

4. The Work’s Scope of Protection

Part III: Copyright Spaces for Interpictoriality

5. The Exceptions to Copyright in Comparative Perspective

6. On The Relation Between Art and Copyright Law

 

Part IV: Displacing The Paradox

7. Beyond Copyright Law – External Remedies

 

Part V: Back To Copyright Law

8. Towards A Cognitively Open Copyright Law

 

Conclusions     

 

Biography

Giulia Walter is a lawyer based in Zurich, Switzerland. She studied law at the universities of Lucerne, Geneva and Vienna and obtained a PhD at the University of Zurich. Specializing in art law and intellectual property law, she strives to adopt an interdisciplinary approach bridging between the disciplines of law, (legal) sociology and art theory. In her work, she has in particular engaged with Niklas Luhmann’s systems theory, which allows an accurate description of the interactions of different autonomous social systems (such as art and law) by preserving their differences and analyzing their reciprocal expectations.

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