Legal Lab Live: Forging Creative Agency in the Metaverse
A screen grab from Serpentine’s first Legal Lab Live session on Twitch. Image courtesy of Serpentine and Guest Work Agency.
How can a deeper understanding of legal rights and responsibilities assist artists and cultural organisations in forging their agency within the metaverse? What does it mean to be an ‘author’ in the metaverse? How are licensing arrangements evolving to respond to this new context? How are artists adapting to the shift from “analogue” law to tech-driven opportunities?
In the first of the Serpentine Legal Lab Live series, Guest Work Agency Director and Serpentine Legal Lab’s Principal Investigator, Alana Kushnir, joined Serpentine’s Arts Technologies R&D Strategic Lead, Victoria Ivanova, in a Twitch livestream delving into these topics.
The interactive session looked at the key legal definitions and pinch points that artists and creative practitioners should be aware of in order to exercise legal agency in the metaverse.
Image courtesy of Serpentine and Guest Work Agency.
ABOUT SERPENTINE LEGAL LAB
The Serpentine Legal Lab is part of the London-based Serpentine Galleries’ R&D Platform and explores how the law can better support collaborations across art, science and technology. It is a space for investigating legal issues and prototyping accessible legal solutions for the art field.
Alana has been the Legal Lab’s Principal Investigator since its inception in 2019. To find out more about Legal Lab’s work, listen to this Warfare of Art & Law Podcast featuring Alana as a special guest.
THE LEGAL LAB LIVE SERIES
The recent ‘Forging Creative Agency in the Metaverse’ Legal Lab Live session was streamed on Twitch and is the first in a series of free, live streamed conversations on law and the metaverse presented throughout 2022.
QUESTIONS ABOUT ARTISTS’ RIGHTS IN THE METAVERSE
In the first Legal Lab Live, Alana laid out the foundation for moving from traditional “analogue” law to tech-driven models, specifically addressing the following questions:
What are the key challenges that Web 3.0 and the metaverse pose to creative practitioners from a legal perspective, and why does this matter?
What digital assets can be legally owned in the metaverse?
Who can have ownership of these digital assets?
On what basis can one use digital assets in the metaverse?
How is copyright enforced and governed?
How is copyright infringement dealt with in the metaverse? Diagram courtesy of Serpentine and Guest Work Agency.
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Guest Work Agency is a boutique art law and advisory firm based in Melbourne, but international in reach. It is the first dedicated art law practice in Australia, working with artists, collectors, galleries, arts organisations, art fairs and art tech start-ups.
For more information contact us at info@guestworkagency.art.