Guest Work Agency’s Director and Founder Alana Kushnir recently assisted the Victorian Crimes Investigation Unit in identifying, cataloguing and returning missing artworks to eleven artists on a pro bono basis, after more than 70 artworks were discovered in connection with the ongoing investigation into art dealer Tristian Koenig.

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 Paralegal Mia Schaumann report on an investigation into the provenance of First Nations artworks, the establishment of a new arts funding and advisory body in Australia, the final outcome in the legal dispute involving Warhol’s Prince Series plus more.

At GWA we're passionate about providing user-friendly solutions to our creative clients. Which is why we're thrilled to be working with Josef to create legal chatbots as part of our services. What on earth is a legal chatbot and why is it relevant to me, you might ask? For this edition of Meet our Guest, we had a chat with Tom Dreyfus, CEO and Co-Founder of Josef, to find out.

In this Art of Business story, our Archives and Collections Consultant, Laura Brandon, shares her insights on why archiving is an integral aspect of quality studio and collection management. Laura has been assisting Guest Work Agency clients with establishing archiving systems as part of our estate planning services for artists and collectors.

Guest Work Agency’s Director and Founder Alana Kushnir has been included in the 2024 edition of the Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in Australia guide in the categories of Entertainment Law and Intellectual Property Law.

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.

There are few people as synonymous with the Australian blockchain community as Joni Pirovich. With a background in tax law, she’s a leading thinker – and advisor – on frameworks for legal recognition of Distributed Autonomous Organisations (DAOs) globally. Joni is also the ‘creator spirit’ of LawFi DAO, of which Guest Work Agency is a member. For this edition of Meet our Guest, our Director and Founder, Alana Kushnir spoke to Joni about LawFi DAO and its ambition to improve the law’s relationship with blockchain technology.

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 Paralegal Mia Schaumann report on the release of the Federal Government’s Token Mapping Consultation Paper, the jury findings on the NFT dispute between Hermès and the creator of ‘MetaBirkins’ NFTs, a class action suit filed against artificial intelligence image generating platforms, plus more.