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Warfare of Art and Law Podcast sparks conversation about the intriguing – and sometimes infuriating – stories that arise in the worlds of art and law with artist and attorney Stephanie Drawdy. 

Warfare of Art & Law Podcast Stephanie Drawdy

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Warfare of Art and Law Podcast sparks conversation about the intriguing – and sometimes infuriating – stories that arise in the worlds of art and law with artist and attorney Stephanie Drawdy. 

    Fair Use and AI - A 2ND Saturday Exploration

    Fair Use and AI - A 2ND Saturday Exploration

    Show Notes:
    0:00 Yelena Khajekian
    1:30 Warhol v Goldsmith decision by SCOTUS 
    3:00 USCO NOI’s Question 8
    4:00 Google LLC v. Oracle America, Inc., 593 U.S. ___ (2021)
    4:20 liability question
    4:45 Emily Gould - fair use
    6:30 Alan Robertshaw - Warhol court’s focus on use of the work
    7:50 Khajekian - artists’ perspective on Warhol decision
    9:00 Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569 (1994)
    10:20 confusion of fair use analysis and court’s aesthetic analysis
    12:00 USCO NOI’s Question about fair use 
    13:00 Robertshaw - UK’s fair dealing analysis
    15:50 Gould - big players like Getty 
    17:45 text and data mining exception
    20:10 Drawdy - private contracting as a solution
    21:00 Robertshaw - Getty
    22:15 Khajekian - conceptual art
    25:55 Warhol’s 2 Cir decision 
    26:50 Gould & Khajekian - Richard Prince decision held not fair use
    27:20 Khajekian - equity issue
    28:40 Gould - UK courts’ emphasis on purpose, e.g., Stormtrooper helmet case 
    30:30 Drawdy - amount and substantiality of use
    31:10 Gould - Australian case about Men at Work’s use of folk song Kookaburra in its pop song Down Under
    32:20 Robershaw - dispute over Vanilla Ice’s Ice Ice Baby
    33:00 Ed Sheeran  
    34:15 Getty case pending in UK
    35:00 Khajekian - international versus US issues 
    37:30 Robershaw - test that contemplates level of effort or end result regarding AI output
    40:30 Gould - risks involved with AI
    40:50 EU’s application-based approach 
    41:10 AI for medical applications
    41:55 detecting forgeries will still require humans, e.g., conflicting AI results regarding Raphael
    42:50  implicit bias in AI
    43:15 dogs detecting forgeries 
    43:40 chickens detecting shapes
    Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com

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    Thanks so much for listening!

    © Stephanie Drawdy [2023]

    • 45 min
    Glance at Culture - Martha Szabo's NYC Solo Exhibition & MSeum's Celebration of Unknown Female Artists

    Glance at Culture - Martha Szabo's NYC Solo Exhibition & MSeum's Celebration of Unknown Female Artists

    Cover art: Martha Szabo, Rooftops in Snow 11, oil on linen, 24 x 35 in., circa 1964

    To learn more, please visit the sites for Martha Szabo and MSeum.

    Show Notes:

    0:00 Art historian Kathleen Hulser

    1:30 Journalist Julia Szabo’s motivation to work on Martha Szabo’s body of work

    4:30 MSeum to be built in the Catskills

    5:00 National Association of Women in Construction

    7:50 Justice for unknown female artists

    11:15 Museum’s mission related to blind and low-vision visitors

    13:45 Sculpture Robin Antar’s limestone sculpture of Szabo’s “Red Sunset”

    15:20 Legacy to be created with MSeum includes redefining storage

    16:45 Visible storage space

    18:30 Julia Szabo’s parents

    19:45 ‘Mother Artist’ field of scholarship

    20:00 Author Hettie Judah

    21:20 Reception for Martha Szabo’s exhibition Up On the Roof

    22:10 Artist Christina Massey

    23:20 Museum’s director Kathleen Hulser

    24:30 “Up On the Roof” exhibition curated by Hulser

    26:00 “Incorrigibles” trans media project

    27:45 MSeum’s creation and mission

    34:15 Hulser’s scope a MuSeum

    36:45 Martha Szabo’s background and how it impacted her work 

    43:15 Feedback about Martha Szabo’s solo exhibition Up On The Roof: Liberation, Transformation, Celebration

    49:35 MSeum and exhibitions like “Up On The Roof” role in bringing some historical justice for female creatives

    52:10 David Richard Gallery



    Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com

    To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.

    To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.

    To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com.

    Thanks so much for listening!

    © Stephanie Drawdy [2023]

    • 54 min
    Glance at Culture - Anna D. Smith shares about Los Angeles Prisoner Artist Donald "C-Note" Hooker

    Glance at Culture - Anna D. Smith shares about Los Angeles Prisoner Artist Donald "C-Note" Hooker

    Cover art by Donald "C-Note" Hooker: top image "Cell Time" (2019); bottom image "During the Flood" (2017)

    To learn more, please visit the sites for Donald "C-Note" Hooker and Art for Redemption.

    Show Notes:
    0:00 Anna D. Smith discussing C-Note Hooker’s artwork entitled “During the Flood”
    1:20 Smith’s background
    3:15 Smith’s work as a court advocate
    4:00 Smith’s adoption of son, Emmanuel 
    4:45 Smith’s contact with artist Donald “C-Note” Hooker
    5:55 Art for Redemption coffee book
    6:10 C-Note’s work related to social justice
    6:45 “During the Flood” aka “Count Time”
    7:50 California prison built on flood-prone areas 
    8:45 compensation for incarcerated workers
    11:00 Smith’s efforts to sell C-Note’s artwork
    11:45 billboards “Incarceration Nation” and “Look Up Hope and Beauty”
    12:20 “Colored Girl Warhol”
    13:20 Billboard events to raise awareness about issues for the individuals in the system, the homeless, parolees 
    14:10 “Incarceration Nation”
    14:50 misconceptions about individuals in the system
    16:45 defining justice and amendment of the 13th Amendment 
    19:00 power of imagery to impact social awareness about issues with the system
    20:30 legacy and need for connections
    21:00 Martin Luther King’s inspiration to love one’s enemies
    24:00 incarcerated individual who entered contest about rehabilitation 
    27:00 view of justice for Smith began with her father’s work as teacher of economics to those incarcerated
    30:30 Vanity Fair article 
    32:00 importance of the arts in the system 
    Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com

    To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.

    To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.

    To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com.

    Thanks so much for listening!

    © Stephanie Drawdy [2023]

    • 34 min
    Transforming Vacant Buildings into Art: Social Change with Ernest Chrappah

    Transforming Vacant Buildings into Art: Social Change with Ernest Chrappah

    To learn more and support Vacant to Visual artists, please visit the CityKey website.

    To reach out and learn more about Ernest Chrappah's work, please visit his website.

    Show notes:

    0:00 Ernest Chrappah
    1:10 Chrappah’s background
    4:00 Washington DC’s Vacant to Visual program
    9:00 artists included in the Vacant to Visual program
    9:50 Nia Keturah Calhoun
    11:15 “Ro” Stephenson
    12:00 Vacant to Visual NFTs
    13:40 feedback from Vacant to Visual program
    16:20 Vacant to Visual program as a model for other cities
    18:20 his view on how art can be used to create a more just society
    20:45 his defintiion of justice
    23:15 future work
    25:30 AI policy
    28:30 Vacant To Visual Site and Vacant to Visual NFT purchase cite



    Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com

    To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.

    To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.

    To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com.

    Thanks so much for listening!

    © Stephanie Drawdy [2023]

    • 31 min
    Glance at Culture - Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller and Katharina Menschick Discussing the #lastseen Project's Analysis of Nazi Deportation Photographs

    Glance at Culture - Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller and Katharina Menschick Discussing the #lastseen Project's Analysis of Nazi Deportation Photographs

    To learn more, please visit the website for the #lastseen project.

    SHOW NOTES:
    0:00 Katharina Menschick on the response to #lastseen project
    3:00 Menschick – research associate in Arolsen Archives’ historical research department dealing with digital memory projects, digital archival projects and archival theory
    3:20 Dr. Christoph Kreutzmüller – historian with Arolsen Archives and House of the Wannsee Conference in Berlin
    3:45 mission of the #lastseen initiative
    5:00 missing deportation photographs 
    6:00 deportation photographs found by American GI and returned during Nuremberg trials
    7:00 request for deportation photographs
    7:20 types of deportation photographs 
    8:30 Eisenach deportation – Magda Katz 
    9:00 U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum research – donor identified uncle in photograph 
    11:15 deportation from Dr. Kreutzmüller’s hometown
    12:30 questions about why photographers took the deportation photos
    13:00 spectatorship / audience of the photographs
    14:20 importance of photographs as a historical source
    14:45 virtual interactive educational resource
    16:45 German high school pupils’ assistance in developing educational resource
    18:10 difficulty of discussing bystanders 
    19:30 photographs invite reflection 
    22:00 historical transparency by telling what they don’t know 
    25:00 giving context to photographs 
    28:30 gaze of those photographed
    29:15 propaganda film in Warsaw Ghetto
    30:20 legacy of their work 
    32:15 definition of justice – striving for fairness
    33:00 real restoration cannot be achieved
    34:00 doing justice to the photographs and to those in the photographs
    34:45 restitution through archives 


    Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com

    To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.

    To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.

    To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com.

    Thanks so much for listening!

    © Stephanie Drawdy [2023]

    • 38 min
    AI Policy From the UK to the US with Institute of Art and Law's Emily Gould - A 2ND Saturday Conversation

    AI Policy From the UK to the US with Institute of Art and Law's Emily Gould - A 2ND Saturday Conversation

     SHOW NOTES:
    0:00 Alan Robertshaw
    1:00 Emily Gould - overview of AI historical development
    2:30 first phase - 1950s Alan Turing - machines do what they are told
    3:10 second phase - machine learning creating models using data and develop methods to make decisions / predictions based on that data
    3:50 third phase - deep learning usually using neural networks to mimic the human brain
    4:50 GANs - part of third phase that involve generator and discriminator algorithms
    5:55 Obvious’ Portrait of Edmond de Belamy
    6:40 Robbie Barrett’s code used by Obvious
    8:40 unpredictability in the deep learning phase 
    9:25 different tests applied to determine if a machine is intelligent
    9:55 Turing test - machine is intelligent if you can’t tell the difference between responses by a human and a machine
    10:10 Lovelace test - machine is intelligent if you can’t explain machine’s answer
    11:20 ‘Alpha Go’ algorithm
    13:30 uses of AI
    14:20 huge training data sets
    15:50 major risks with AI include copyright
    17:10 privacy and data protection
    17:20 transparency - deep fake
    17:40 bias amplification
    18:15 MIT researcher Joy Buolamwini’s work with facial analysis software
    19:45 UK’s pro-innovation approach to AI
    21:45 text and data mining (TDM) exception only for non-commercial use - proposal to expand to commercial use
    24:25 Nov 2022 government decided not to expand TDM exception to commercial use
    24:55 UK Pro-innovation Regulation of Technologies Review
    26:45 A pro-innovation approach to AI regulation policy paper  - no legislation in the short term, no move to central regulatory body for AI
    29:30 AI described in UK white paper as including autonomy and adaptivity
    32:25 Global Summit on AI Safety
    32:45 EU AI Act with risk—based approach - June 2023 signed off by Parliament; final conclusions expected late 2023; operational circa 2026
    36:35 US - AI suits pending
    37:00 Robbie Barrett
    38:00 opt in versus opt out policy
    39:20 Senate testimony regarding UK’s AI advances
    40:15 US Task Force on AI Policy proposed; Privacy Consumer Protection Framework
    40:45 Getty v. Stability AI suits in US and UK
    41:25 2024 elections and AI
    44:00 Alan Robertshaw’s case with Getty
    47:05 Gould: AI voice scam
    48:00 Robertshaw: AI uses
    50:20 AI medical screening
    53:00 consciousness
    56:00 Artist Sofia Crespo’s work with natural history
    56:30 Lines and Bones by artist Iskra Velitchkova
    56:50 Dawn Chorus Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg
    57:30 projection for how artists in the UK will address AI issues 






    Please share your comments and/or questions at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com

    To hear more episodes, please visit Warfare of Art and Law podcast's website.

    To view rewards for supporting the podcast, please visit Warfare's Patreon page.

    To leave questions or comments about this or other episodes of the podcast and/or for information about joining the 2ND Saturday discussion on art, culture and justice, please message me at stephanie@warfareofartandlaw.com.

    Thanks so much for listening!

    © Stephanie Drawdy [2023]

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