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The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA; Pub. L. 101–650 title VI, 17 U.S.C. § 106A), is a United States law granting certain rights to artists. VARA was the first federal copyright legislation to grant protection to moral rights. Under VARA, works of art that meet certain requirements afford their authors additional rights in the works ...
Helmsley-Spear's representatives forbade the artists from installing any further artwork, and stated that they were going to remove the completed art from the building. The artists believed that this was a mutilation of their artwork under Visual Artists Rights Act and filed a lawsuit to enjoin the defendants from taking such actions.
Some individual states have moral rights laws, particularly pertaining to visual art and artists (see e.g. California Art Preservation Act, Artists Authorship Rights Act (New York)). However, it is unclear if these laws, or portions thereof, are preempted by federal laws, such as the Visual Artists Rights Act. [41] In Gilliam v.
Subsidiary rights can also be negotiated. If a producer holds part of an author's subsidiary rights, this would mean the producer would have a share in the profits from all amateur productions, television versions, or movie versions of this production. These rights typically only last for a certain period of time that is negotiated. [1]
In the United States, artists’ rights were typically protected under copyright law or the law of contracts. Increasingly, the moral rights of artists, those of ‘a spiritual, non-economic and personal nature that exists independently of an artist’s copyright in’ their work have been coming to the fore, both on the federal and state level.
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The states of California and New York guarantee the integrity of the author's work, and the Visual Artists Rights Act, enacted October 27, 1990, incorporates moral rights of artists in a federal law. In the United Kingdom, moral rights have been incorporated in copyright law (authors' rights, Designs and Patents Act 1988).