Art & Law Conference

The Franco-British Lawyers’ Society’s 2024 art law conference, Technology Meets the Art World, centres around the growing impact of technology in the sector, together with the legal effects both in the UK and France. Artificial intelligence, digital art and intellectual property rights, as well as the use of technology in authentication and provenance research, all give rise to new challenges.

Our speakers, drawn from the law and the art world, will discuss these innovations along with the continuing role of connoisseurship.

Our conference is made possible by the generous support of law-firm Irwin Mitchell, who are hosting the event, and by our speakers and contributors who give their expertise and time so valuably.

Agenda

(Agenda/speakers subject to change) 

2:30pm Introduction

>> Catherine Palmer (AJFB/FBLS Director)

Chair of the event

>> Christopher Devereux (AJFB/FBLS)

2:40pm  Session 1:

- Digital art and artificial intelligence:  a New Creation?    

>> Racheal Muldoon, barrister, Maitland Chambers

- What are the intellectual property rights arising, and who owns them?  The assessment from Franco-British perspectives

>> Gregor Kleinknecht, Meum Group and Gabriel Safar, FTPA

4:10pm Tea/Coffee Break

4:30pm  Session 2:

- Authenticity, provenance and blockchain

>> Denis Moiseev, Hephaestus Analytical

>> Elise Huff, Arius Technology

- Protecting artists’ rights in the age of AI

>> Reema Selhi, Head of Policy & International,  Design and Artists Copyright Society

- Artificial intelligence vs. Connoisseurship

>> Lennox Cato, Charles Cochrane, Elise Huff, Denis Moiseev and Racheal Muldoon

- Q&A /open forum  

6.30pm Drinks Reception & Networking

7:15pm Close

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Possibility to attend the event via zoom. 

Please send an email to [email protected] to register to get the visio link.