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Digital Art: Debate and Exhibition

With the exhibition “New Portraits” in New York last year, the artist Richard into the press and also triggered a debate about the copyright of digitally available objects . For his exhibition he used 37 profile pictures of Instagram users, both known and unknown to him. He commented on the images and printed them out in large format without asking the users' permission.

Prince took advantage of publicly provided profiles and sold them. The response in the press was diverse and revived two . On the one hand, that concerns the appropriation and authorship of content posted on the Internet and, on the other hand, that concerns the concept of art and the market value of art.

The law of authorship and licenses dates back to times before the global and everyday use of the Internet. Rapid technical developments are always a step ahead of their regulations. The previous regulations are flexible and so Prince was able to use image material from the Internet profitably according to the fair use principle (which roughly corresponds to the restrictions in German law), whether you think that is right or wrong.

The Museum of Contemporary Art Basel opened the exhibition “Of Pictures. Strategies of Appropriation” , which addresses the external use of material in art. The exhibition can be seen until January 24, 2016.

If you want to prevent third-party use or even misuse of your images, you don't have to completely stop using them on the Internet. be stored in a legally secure manner and used online using appropriate software such as the DAM system easydb If you are interested or have questions about easydb Programmfabrik can help . Send your request programmfabrik : anfrage@programmfabrik.de .