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Part I. Creativity in the Street Between Misappropriation and Destruction: The Role of Copyright and Moral Rights; Section 1. A Sociological Perspective: 1. A set of premises for the scrutiny and interpretation of graffiti and street art Heitor Alvelos; 2. Graffiti and street art: creative practices amid 'corporatization' and 'corporate appropriation' Ronald Kramer; 3. Decontextualisation of street art Peter Bengtsen; Section 2. Some Preliminary Legal and Policy Issues: 4. Copyright protection of illegal street and graffiti artworks Paula Westenberger; 5. Conservation of street art, moral right of integrity and a web of conflicting interests Enrico Bonadio; 6. Works and walls: graffiti writing and street art at the intersection of copyright and land law Marta Iljadica; Part II. National Legal Analysis: Section 1. Americas: 7. Street art, graffiti and copyright: a US perspective Enrico Bonadio; 8. Graffiti, street art, walls, and the public in Canadian copyright law Pascale Chapdeleine; 9. Copyright protection for graffiti and street art: a Colombian perspective Marcela Palacio Puerta; Section 2. Europe: 10. Street art, graffiti and copyright: a UK law perspective Enrico Bonadio; 11. Graffiti, street art and copyright in France Shane Burke; 12. Germany Marc Mimler; 13. Copyright in street art and graffiti: an Italian perspective Enrico Bonadio and Gilberto Cavagna Di Gualdana; 14. Copyright in street art and graffiti in The Netherlands Anke Moerland and Stéphanie De Potte; 15. Copyright protection of street art and graffiti in Greece: intellectual property and personal property in conflict? Stavroula Karapapa; Section 3. Africa, Asia and Australasia: 16. Graffiti and street art under South African copyright law Tobias Schonwetter and Bram Van Wiele; 17. Street art, graffiti, and Indian copyright law Nandita Saikia; 18. Copyright in street art and graffiti: an Australian perspective Mark Davidson; 19. Copyright, graffiti, and street art in Aotearoa New Zealand Jonathan Barrett; Epilogue. A contrasting opinion: 20. Copyright skepticism and street art: a contrasting opinion Andrea Baldini.
About the author
Enrico Bonadio is Senior Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law at City, University of London and Visiting Professor in IP Law at Université Catholique de Lyon as well as visiting lecturer at the LLMs in Intellectual Property offered by the World Intellectual Property Organization in Turin and Ankara. His current research focuses on copyright protection of unconventional forms of expression, including graffiti and street art. He is the co-editor of Non-Conventional Copyright: Do New and Non-Traditional Works Deserve Protection? (2018) and Beyond Plain Packaging: The New Intellectual Property of Health (2016).
