Panel

This panel explores some of the ins and outs of U.S. law pertaining to the image ownership in a digital age, from the perspective of a lawyer, estate executor, and stock agency. What constitutes “free use”? How does freedom of expression dovetail with an artist’s protection of his or her work? Are images more available today or less? As a practical matter, how does one enforce copyright law?

Moderator
Michelle Bogre, Associate Professor and Chair, Photography Department, Parsons The New School for Design, writer and photographer

Participants
Richard Ellis, Senior Vice President of Business Development, Getty Images
Barbara Hoffman, arts, entertainment and intellectual property lawyer

This panel is part of the Aperture Foundation Lectures: “Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context,” and is presented in collaboration with the Aperture Foundation, Parsons The New School for Design and the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School with generous support from the Kettering Family Foundation and the Henry Nias Foundation. This program is made possible, in part, by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts and the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs.

This event is presented as part of the Vera List Center’s program cycle on “The Public Domain.”