Space Studio partnered with Art Chain Legal to present 'Art Law', A workshop by Maker's Legal founder Pankhuri Upadhyay. This was a comprehensive workshop covering key legal concepts relevant to visual artists in India to help artists and art practitioners navigate the intricacies of applicable laws and incorporate good legal hygiene in their artistic practices.
Some topics that were addressed included the basics of copyright, concepts such as moral rights, fair dealing, derivative works, and what constitutes infringement, through the lens of Indian and international case studies.
About:
Pankhuri Upadhyay has over a decade of experience in corporate law, having worked at leading law firms in India. She is now the founder of Maker's Legal, a full-service law firm with a strong focus on art and media laws - representing a diverse roster of creative professionals from typeface designers to actors, media houses to design studios, contemporary artists to music composers, cinematographers to writers. One of the primary objectives of the firm, since its inception, has been quantitative research, active discourse, and proactive engagement with different stakeholders in the creative industries to help better the legal infrastructure that supports them. The firm strives to work at the intersection of law, research, education, multimedia, and technology, to address the rapidly evolving landscape of creative systems globally and resulting legal challenges, so as to foster problem-solving with equally innovative strategies and facilitation of intermediary processes in the arts.
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Art Chain India began during the pandemic with the determination to create spaces for community interaction, alternative methods of knowledge-sharing, and guidance. This space is driven by the potential for localized assistance and commonalities to create global solidarities within artist communities. To think about ways in which artists can challenge opacities within which systemic hierarchies thrive. Art Chain Legal, as a part of this effort, informs artists about their legal rights in India and ways in which to implement them, in order to protect their practices and interests. This is a movement that seeks to cultivate a politics of autonomy and collaboration and to de-center conversation, economy, and resources.
