Navigating the use of copyrighted material within new work | Learning Resource Highlight

In December 2022, we published a Learning Resource on the subject of​‘navigating the use of copyrighted material within new work’ with contributions from artists Duncan Campbell, Beatrice Gibson and Andrea Luka Zimmerman. The artists responded to five set questions on the subject:

• Navigating copyrighted material can be confusing and expensive. What advice or creative solutions would you give to artists looking to use copyrighted materials within new, relatively low budget works?
• How would you describe the relationship between (possibly inaccessible) copyrighted material and wider ideas of​‘appropriation’ within an art practice?
• Could you describe a situation where an artist has relied on​‘fair use’* principles to access material for a new work that would otherwise be inaccessible? *as in, the US legal term​‘fair use’ or the UK legal term​‘fair dealing’
• What advice would you give to artists trying to learn more about art-making and copyright law?
• What might artists have to think carefully about when exhibiting work that appropriates copyrighted material in some way?

Our series of written learning resources, each covering a different subject, aim to demystify some of the structures of the art and film worlds that artists working with moving image navigate. We invite three contributors to answer set questions on each subject to offer our readers a range of subjective views and experiences of the topic.

You can read or listen to this Learning Resource by following the link below.

Image description: A direction to film animation shows a red-toned ocean reef with bright turquoise scratches into the film.