Children are fascinated by the works of art within the public domain
Great works of art, which are already within the public domain, which means that their copyright protection has already expired, are being recreated by Thaïs Vanderheyden. In this way, art is brought closer to children who are fascinated by her works of art.
The interactive exhibition entitled Great Art for Great Kids in Brussels takes the visitor through the history of fine art and draws attention to various artistic movements and individual artists. Everything from the Van Eyck brothers and Michelangelo to Mondrian, Mark Rothko and Keith Haring.
Belgian illustrator and author of children’s books Thaïs Vanderheyden has been teaching children about great art for some time now through a book series, by creating her own versions of famous paintings. She has recreated famous works of art into beautiful youth versions that excite the imagination of art lovers.
Her recreations would be illegal if the original works were not already within the public domain, which means that the copyright protection has expired, so the works are allowed to be freely used without the consent of the copyright holder of the original work.
On September 16, 2023, Dr. Maja Bogataj Jančič participated in the event @Re:Source MAH – the 10th International Conference on Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. The program was divided into various categories (“tracks”), specifically focusing on the documentation and preservation of media arts; climate change; pioneers of media arts; and the history of media arts in museums.
The U.S. Copyright Office has once again denied the registration of an artwork created by artificial intelligence. Artist Jason M. Allen was unsuccessful in his second attempt to register the artwork “Theatre D’opera Spatial” as a copyrighted work because it contains more than a de minimis amount of content generated by artificial intelligence (AI).
On Friday 23 June 2023, a webinar entitled “Copyright and Legal Basis for Generative Artificial Intelligence Training” was held as the inaugural event of an informal research network in the region in the field of copyright. Researchers from Slovenia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia and North Macedonia participated in the event, which is part of the national Open Knowledge Day initiative and the national and regional coordination activities carried out by ODIPI under the auspices of Knowledge Rights 21.
The new report of the Knowledge Rights 21 project partner SPARC Europe is now available.