The Role of the Collage in the Conflict Between Freedom of Artistic Expression and the Protection of Intellectual Property
Ilja Czernik · 2008
Due to the collage’s omnipresence in cultural activity, its importance for artistic development, and its image as culturally contemporary, the collage proves itself to be a suitable starting point for a copyright specific examination of two significant issues: on the one hand, the definition of an artistic work under copyright law and on the other hand, the problems that the collage artist faces due to the fact that the borrowed art used in the collage is inevitably protected as an artistic creation under copyright law.