Guest Work Agency comments on legal issues regarding MONA’s fake Picasso’s

Guest Work Agency is your go-to source on art-related legal cases and law reform in Australia, as well as select cases internationally. In this update, our Director and Founder, Alana Kushnir and paralegal Eve Rayner report on the anti-discrimination case concerning MONA’s “Ladies Lounge”, the introduction of reciprocal resale royalties for Australian artists and more.

In 2022, Guest Work Agency Director, Alana Kushnir and Paralegal Mia Schaumann contributed an article to the Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin exploring how artificial intelligence is challenging the law’s approach to art, with a particularly focus on attribution and forgery detection. Kushnir and Schaumann have recently submitted the second part of their research, investigating the intellectual property issues surrounding art made using machine learning tools from an Australian perspective.

In the third instalment of the Serpentine Legal Lab Live series, Alana Kushnir and legal scholar, internet activist, and artist Primavera de Filippi explored the legal and technical issues surrounding the licensing of NFTs.

Guest Work Agency Director Alana Kushnir featured on Serpentine’s first Legal Lab Live session as part of its 2022 Twitch series.

In a recent article written for Right Click Save, Guest Work Director and Founder Alana Kushnir traces a history of contract automation, assessing the enforceability of smart contracts in the age of NFTs.

If you work in the art industry, chances are you will need to hire a lawyer at some stage. We would always recommend being proactive in seeking legal advice as it will help protect you and prevent legal issues from arising later down the track. In this blog we cover exactly what an art lawyer does, when you should hire an art lawyer and what sort of legal arrangements you should have in place when creating, exhibiting and selling and donating art.

Guest Work Agency is your go-to source on art-related legal cases and law reform in Australia, as well as select cases internationally.

In this story, our Director and Founder, Alana Kushnir and Paralegal Associate, Mia Schaumann, report on the proceedings against ‘rogue dealer’ Tristan Koenig, the Australian Government’s recent acquisition of the copyright in the Aboriginal Flag, a fashion-meets-art NFT dispute and more.