Stačí pouhý fakt, že umělec své dílo vytvořil, k tomu, aby byl právně uznán za jeho autora? Nebo je potřeba ještě něco víc – aby se k dílu rovněž osobně přihlásil?
Přednáška Marka Windsora (universita v Uppsale) nabídne filosofickou reflexi klíčových otázek spojených s autorskými právy.
Přednáška i následná diskuze proběhnou v angličtině.
Vstup zdarma
In law, “moral rights” protect the personal interests that artists have in their works and are independent of any economic rights they may have in them. These include the right to be attributed as the author of their works and the right to prevent their works from being modified without their permission. My aim in this talk is to clarify the authorship relation that grounds these rights. As commonly understood, to be an author of an artwork is to be one who is responsible for creating it. Recently, however, Karen Gover, in her book Art and Authority: Moral Rights and Meaning in Contemporary Visual Art (2018), has argued that to make sense of the authorship relation that grounds moral rights, we need to recognize that artists must not only create their artworks but also endorse them. Against Gover, I argue that artists’ creation of artworks is sufficient for authorship. I present two arguments against Gover’s claim that authorship requires artists’ endorsement of their works: first, that it is not reflected in our practices of attributing authors to artworks, and second, that it does not have any role in explaining the grounds of moral rights. I then discuss some positive reasons for why artists’ creation of artworks should be sufficient for authorship that concern the collective interests we take in attributing authors to artworks.
The lecture and the subsequent discussion will be held in English.
