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, and Paralegal Mia Schaumann recently wrote about how artificial intelligence is challenging the law’s approach to attribution and forgery detection for the recent issue of the Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin.

Guest Work Agency has provided advice to art tech platform Zien on stakeholder mapping and how to transform complex legal and regulatory documents into accessible, user-friendly tools.

Guest Work Agency Director and Founder Alana Kushnir has advised Blockchain.art (BCA), the first NFT marketplace designed and built specifically for the needs of the 21st century art world.

In this story, Guest Work Agency intern and Serpentine Legal Lab Research Associate, Jasper Salomonsz, shares his take on the Serpentine Research & Development (R&D) Platform’s recent release of Legal Lab Report 1: Art x Tech/Science Collaborations. Highlighting some of the key legal issues facing artists, technologists, arts institutions, tech companies and others when collaborating, this story offers a useful summary on the challenges faced by cutting edge creative practice.