SUMMARY

As I discussed, it is important to consider copyright, moral rights, consumer protection issues...etc., including misleading and deceptive conduct, when creating an artwork.

Knowing all legalisations and guidelines are especially important if our art practice – involving appropriate elements of work from existing artistic works or working with public.

The laws and guidelines discussed below – in previous posts may often appear to restrict or inhibit the creation of new art but living a present-day society it is important to consider that these laws and guidelines also protect your work from unauthorised use, derogatory treatment or use in a way which may mislead or deceive the public.

Copyright law probably plays the main role of protecting the income streams of all artists, but then again, it’s only applied in USA and Europe.

However, the purpose of all these guidelines is to codify the best practice for the reproduction and communication of visual art via digital or other distribution methods 

There were no many guidelines I could apply to my success story, as massive time gap separates world where Leonardo lived and worked, from present days. No many rules been fallowed back then and low was mainly protecting wealthy community. Although considering his success I believe it didn’t much bother him - common sense was the main guideline.  

Now the law serves to protect the work an artist creates, so as act as a restrictive condition to work around. Whatever it is we must work legally fallowing in our best ability these existing guidelines.