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.

In a recent article written for Right Click Save, Guest Work Agency Director and Founder Alana Kushnir and fellow art lawyer Yayoi Shionoiri, Executive Director to the Estate of Chris Burden and the Studio of Nancy Rubins, explore the regulation of NFTs today.

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 Paralegals, Mia Schaumann and Jess Olford report on the Full Federal Court of Australia’s recent determination that an artificial intelligence system cannot be an inventor, the long-running copyright dispute between the Andy Warhol Foundation and photographer Lynn Goldsmith, an NFT trade mark dispute plus more.

Art law and advisory firm Guest Work Agency traces the regulatory landscape of artist-gallery relationships in Australia in an article written for the Australian Intellectual Property Law Bulletin.

Designers, artists, and owners of designs alike should be aware of the recent amendments to the Designs Act 2003 (Cth). There are some key points that could make a difference in your ability to register a design, or defend yourself if your design is substantially similar to another's.

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.