Fair Dealing conference

The Fair Dealing conference on using still and moving images in academic research took place at Birkbeck on 24th November 2017. Audio records of each speaker’s contribution, and each panel discussion, are below (and can be downloaded). Audio recording and photography by Bartek Dziadosz.

Panel 1: The Concept of Copyright in Art, moderated by Professor Fiona Macmillan

Panel 2: What is Fair? moderated by Richard Taylor

Panel 3: Working with Fair Dealing, moderated by Dr Lily Ford

Below is some of the material shown by panellists in their presentations.

Robert Rauschenberg ‘Erased De Kooning Drawing’ 1953 (San Francisco Museum of Modern Art). Image nominated by panellist Dr Grischka Petri, who commends the Rauschenberg Foundation’s fair use policy.

The Phantom Carriage: A Revaluation video essay by panellist John Gibbs and Douglas Pye. Read more here.

Macaque Selfie. Self-portrait by the depicted Macaca nigra female (who photographed herself with photographer David Slater’s camera). The copyright of the image was contested by Wikimedia on grounds of authorship, and Slater had to pursue lengthy court cases to assert his rights (see here for more information). Reproduced here with the permission of David Slater. Image nominated by panellist Sergio Angelini.
Still from episode 3 of ‘The Game is On!’ directed by Ronan Deazley and Bartolomeo Meletti, an animated webseries educating viewers about copyright law and creativity.

A Girl Like I, video by panellist Catherine Grant (2016). Read about it here.

Untitled (Cowboy) Setup, photograph by Mike Stimpson, 2009. This set-up shot shows how Flickr user Balakov made a further intervention on the Marlboro man image rephotographed by Richard Prince in 1989. Image nominated by panellist Henrique Carvalho. Available from Flickr.

Header image: Untitled (Cowboy), photograph by Richard Prince, 1989. Richard Prince famously rephotographed Sam Abell’s images for Marlboro to make his own artworks. Prints from the Untitled (Cowboy) series have sold for over $3m.