In a world where we have long since become at home on the Internet and share our lives, questions about authorship and licensing rights have arisen not only since the invention of NFTs. The non-profit organization Creative Commons has been working since 2001 for the simple and concrete handling of works on the internet by publishing license agreements in which authors can determine the rights of use to their works such as images, texts, music pieces, videos, etc. This can open up new freedoms for artists, public and educational institutions, as well as interested private individuals. But what is the future of authorship? What do Creative Common licenses mean for art? How do artists use Open Data? Are there new formats of licensing rights? How to create freely accessible works that are actually used regarding production and reception? What is the anarchist and anti-capitalist potential of Open Data?
Constant Dullaart is a Dutch artist who explores, among other things, internet culture, authorship, the intersection between tech and art communities, and the performativity of art. In long-term performances he questions the art market and its excesses on social media and tries to examine the materiality and conditions of the internet more closely. In doing so, he always proceeds with critical sensitivity, humor and a certain poetry.
Martin Zeilinger is Senior Lecturer of Computer Art and Technology at Abertay University in Dundee, Scotland, and works academically and as a curator on topics such as digital art, appropriation-based art practices, and theories of cultural and intellectual property. In 2021, a monograph by him on artificial intelligence and contemporary art was published by Meson Press. His essays on art theory have appeared in Leonardo, Philosophy & Technology, and Culture Machine, among others.
Gabi Schulte-Lünzum and Ulrike Fladerer both worked on the digital collection of the Städel Museum Frankfurt and its publication. Between the end of 2019 and 2021, over 22,000 works of art were made available with a Creative Commons license CC BY-SA 4.0, in accord with the change of copyright law 2021, 24,000 works are currently licence-free in the public domain. This means that all public domain artworks previously published in the digital collection can be downloaded and reproduced in any format, shared, edited and used for any purpose.
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