MFA Fine Arts presents a talk by department faculty member Franklin Boyd.

In an age of production by studio assistants, casual collaborations and collectives, not to mention works produced autonomously by artificial intelligence, the determination of who is the legal creator of an artwork is becoming murkier and murkier. Who owns the copyright? Who has the right to sell the work? How will the proceeds be divided? Most importantly, what should an artist consider in advance to prevent future problems? Boyd will discuss hypotheticals as well as recent real world cases to address these questions and others.

Franklin Boyd combines multiple perspectives on the art market: lawyer, professor, collector, board member, advisor and entrepreneur. She currently maintains her own legal practice and is on the faculty of the Sotheby’s Institute of Art and the School of Visual Arts. She is a board member of the Shandaken Project and Smartspaces, having previously served on the boards of Art in General and Zero1 in Silicon Valley. She is the founder of Xipsy, a non-siloed art database that facilitates contractual resale rights for artists and galleries. She is the contributing author to Selling Contemporary Art: How to Navigate the Emerging Market, and is currently working on Fine Art Finance: A Guide to Extraordinary Figures, which will be published in the spring of 2018. Franklin began her legal career at Cravath, Swaine & Moore LLP, and is a graduate of Georgetown's School of Foreign Service and New York University's School of Law.

Talk

Franklin Boyd

Room 101C