Ethics

Reflections             Initially the topic I chose was intellectual freedom which I believed would be an easy topic because there is such a discussion surrounding it currently. However, one of the first things that I learned was that there is such a blur between copyright laws, intellectual freedom, and fair use that sometimes it is hard to keep it all straight. The man issue I was looking at when I started my blog was the hard line or use and receiving credit for your creation and where does it become a legal issue. One example for me was my friend painted some blue birds and she claimed it just was the birds and nature. Well she was selling her art work in a little boutique and someone who worked at Painting with a Twist saw it and said her art work was too close to the one that did at their store. They sent her a letter saying she couldn’t sell that painting. However, when does that encroach on her intellectual freedom to create a nature seen that could close to a thousand oth

References: “18 U.S. Code 668 – Theft of Major Artwork.” LII/Legal Information Institute. Accessed April 17 th , 2018. https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/668 . Artists' Rights: A Guide to Copyright, Moral Rights and Other Legal Issues in the Visual Art Sphere   2015. Vol. 2. Beaverton: Ringgold Inc.   http://ezp.twu.edu/docview/1657423995?accountid=7102 . "Art, Crime and Criminals: Painting Fresh Pictures of Art Theft, Fraud and Plunder." Review.   Http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/events/podcasts/painting-fresh-pictures-of-art-theft-fraud-and-plunder/   (audio blog), June 21, 2016. Accessed April 4, 2018.   http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/events/podcasts/painting-fresh-pictures-of-art-theft-fraud-and-           plunder/. Copyright Infringement Penalities. Accessed April 17 th , 2018. http://www.lib.purdue.edu/uco/CopyrightBasics/penalities.html Covey, Denise Troll.   The Ethics of Open Access and Copyright Infringement . Carnegie Mellon University. Http://re

"Art, Crime and Criminals: Painting Fresh Pictures of Art Theft, Fraud and Plunder." Review. Http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/events/podcasts/painting-fresh-pictures-of-art-theft-fraud-and-plunder/ (audio blog), June 21, 2016. Accessed April 4, 2018. http://www.law.qmul.ac.uk/events/podcasts/painting-fresh-pictures-of-art-theft-fraud-and-          plunder/.                This seminar was based more on actual art theft than the intellectual side of art theft. However, many of the points that were brought up were applicable to both types of art theft. The main topics of this seminar were about art theft, vandalism, and copying of someone else’s work. There were many speakers from law schools, the FBI, Interpol, Universities, lawyers, police, and art recovery specialist and insurance agents.   They were each allotted twenty minutes to speak. They came from Germany, France, Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom. There was a quite a large amount of question and ans