englischThe term appropriation refers to various forms of reproducing copyrighted works. Already in the 1970s, artists of Appropriation Art used copies for their works of art. With digitalization and the culture of participation in the Internet, the techniques of Appropriation Art were democratized [...]

Hat die Digitalisierung, die Recht und Technik gleichermaßen verändert, einen Reformbedarf des Kunsturhebergesetzes ausgelöst? Diese Frage untersucht die vorliegende Arbeit und legt dabei die folgenden drei Thesen zugrunde: Erstens ist das Kunsturhebergesetz trotz Kollision mit der [...]

englisch„Deutsche Arbeiter! Die SPD will euch eure Villen im Tessin wegnehmen“

In his posters, the artist and lawyer Klaus Staeck commented on the political events of the late FRG. He continues to confront his audience with major social issues such as gender equality, climate protection, and peace [...]

englischThe meaning of pictures is often unclear. Yet, at the same time, pictures are powerful. Their power can be frightening and yet they are used as convincing arguments. How pictures function is analysed by the visual sciences. However, the law, both as a system and a regulatory framework which [...]

englischDigital images raise ethical issues that have so far received only little attention. The discrete pixels of digital images can be freely combined. Compared to the dissemination of analog images the net enables dis-proportionately greater control over how digital images are to be distributed. [...]

englischAt first glance, originals, copies and forgeries seem to be clearly separated from each other. On closer inspection, however, the field of referring and adopting artistic practices turns out to be just as differentiated as the ways in which images and artefacts are used. It is less a matter [...]

englischDigital and networked technologies have fundamentally changed the conditions of production in art. On the basis of binary coded information, contents of all media and genres can be combined without media discontinuity. Contemporary digital art experiments with adaptive techniques and [...]

englischIn the current debate on gender-appropriate and non-discriminatory commercial communication, this study takes a comparative legal look at the different legal and self-regulatory instruments of the European advertising regulation systems. With the inclusion of social science, cognitive [...]

englischStreet photography shows the life of people in public space, unadulterated and authentic. However, this genre is in constant conflict with the personal rights of the people depicted. This topic has become particularly virulent because the production and publication of photographs have [...]

englischWhether it is Keanu Reeves’ performance as an ambitious young lawyer in The Devil's Advocate (1997), or the depiction of a fighter pilot’s fate in court in the German TV film Terror – Ihr Urteil (2016): law-related narratives have always been a popular motif in film. What is at the source of [...]