Comments on: Art and the law: “Against moral rights” https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/02/art-and-the-law-against-moral-rights/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:55:18 +0000 hourly 1 By: Walter Olson https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/02/art-and-the-law-against-moral-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-40741 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:55:18 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9206#comment-40741 It’s been a long time since I wrote on this law (in a piece that isn’t online), but I believe it concerns itself mostly with 1) permanent, irreversible alterations to artworks or 2) public exhibition of works with some kinds of nonpermanent alterations when not intended by the artist. If merely concealing a work from view were an offense, a lot of people would be in trouble.

]]> By: Benjamin https://www.overlawyered.com/2009/02/art-and-the-law-against-moral-rights/comment-page-1/#comment-40740 Fri, 20 Feb 2009 15:45:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=9206#comment-40740 Under this, could an artist block the Day Without Art people from covering their statues for AIDS? Where I went to college, they put big ugly black plastic over all the statues on campus for that day.

Technically, wrapping a statue with black plastic is altering a work of art. I wonder if I could create a sculpture and slip it onto campus unnoticed and then complain when they cover it to see if that argument had merit.

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