Join IMPULSE Magazine for the third session of our new talk series, IMPULSE Forum, a community-based conversation program seeking to build our local IMPULSE community. Each themed conversation will invite our audience to create new, relevant discourse set across partner galleries and project spaces in New York City.

This month’s forum, titled “Copy of A Copy: Does Art Need Copyright?”, will be held on Tuesday, September 23rd, 6:00 pm at Microscope Gallery (525 W 29th St, 2nd Floor) and will conclude with drinks at a nearby bar! 

“Copy of a Copy” seeks to address the uses and limitations of copyright in the fine arts world. Central to the conversation is a text by Amy Adler, “Why Art Does Not Need Copyright,” which argues that the logic of copyright as a tool to economically incentivize creativity actually has the opposite effect, due to the art world’s prizing of authenticity and authorship in attributing value to an artwork. While her argument is certainly compelling, its logics apply more reasonably to “traditional” mediums such as painting or sculpture. Can her argument be applied to lens-based artists making work in the digital age? 

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