About this publication
This handbook aims to provide a comprehensive overview of the
multifaceted art law within the legal framework applicable to South Africa.
In four ‘phases ‘, it provides answers to legal questions that arise from the
initiation of an art project up to its exploitation. It is aimed at both law
students who have an academic interest in an in-depth introduction to art
law and practitioners from the art world and is therefore equipped with
numerous explanatory examples.
Content
Phase 0 – Legal Frameworks of South African Copyright Law 
•    The South African Constitution 
•    International Law 
•    Binding Case Law 
•    The Copyright Act 79 of 1978 
Phase 1 – The Creation of the Work of Art 
•    Requirements for Copyright Protection 
•    Period of Copyright Protection
•    Authorship and Ownership 
•    Legal Boundaries in the Creation of Artworks
Phase 2 – Entitlements deriving from copyright 
•    Economic Rights 
•    Moral Rights 
•    Art and the Internet 
•    Taxation for Artists 
•    Collecting Societies 
Phase 3 – The Infringement of Copyright 
•    Copyright Infringement and Exceptions 
•    Consequences of Copyright Infringement 
Phase 4 – Other Relevant Issues 
•    The Copyright Amendment Bill 
•    Artists’ Social Insurance 
•    Artist Designation and Naming 
•    The Protection of Jewellery Design 
•    IPR in the Digital Environment: Digital Applied Arts 
•    VI. Design Law 
Interest / Benefit to
•   Lawyers, artists, art galleries, government departments, libraries