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Copyright's Illogical Exclusion Of Conceptual Art That Changes Over Time, Zahr K. Said
Copyright's Illogical Exclusion Of Conceptual Art That Changes Over Time, Zahr K. Said
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This Essay argues that copyright illogically excludes conceptual art from protection on the basis of fixation, given that well-settled case law has interpreted the fixation requirement to reach works that contain certain kinds of change so long as they are sufficiently repetitive to be deemed permanent. While conceptual art may perhaps be better left outside the scope of copyright protection on the basis of its failure to meet copyright’s other requirements, this Essay concludes that fixation should not be the basis on which to exclude conceptual art from protection.
There are of course both normative and descriptive questions around the …