Hacking Copyright in the 21st Century: Art, Law, History & Technology

该项目旨在利用历史的洞察力来调查视觉艺术作品的法律处理背后的紧张关系。它将产生软件和学术研究，追踪技术与视觉版权之间的关系，从18世纪视觉艺术品的第一个法定保护，到当代通过数字出版平台传播数字图像数据的监管。它的意义在于对当代版权法在视觉和数字领域交叉的长期存在的问题进行了跨学科和创新的研究。它将对法律改革和政策制定产生影响，对视觉艺术家、收藏机构和公众都有好处。

This project aims to leverage historical insights to investigate the tensions underlying the legal treatment of visual works of art. It will generate software and scholarship that trace the relationship between technology and visual copyright from the first statutory protections of visual artworks in the 18th century through to contemporary regulation of the dissemination of digital image data via digital publishing platforms. Its significance lies in its interdisciplinary and innovative investigation of long-standing problems of contemporary copyright law at the intersection of the visual and digtal domains. It will have impact on law reform and policy development, with benefits for visual artists, collecting institutions and the public.