OneSearch is a discovery tool that searches across the majority of our books, journals, articles, and more. It can also be used to search for materials outside of our collections! It's a great starting point for your research and can be used to drill down to very specific resources.
Browsing a library's collection in person is one way to find books on subjects. Libraries using the Library of Congress classification system will have many general materials on cultural property and related topics located under the call numbers K3791 and CC135. Materials focusing on a specific jurisdiction will be located with the other legal materials for that jurisdiction. For example, materials focusing on the United States will largely be clustered in the KF4288-KF4310 call number range.
You can find what the abbreviations stand for here.
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CC --- Archaeology N --- Fine arts |
| N 5300-7429 --- Art History |
| NA --- Architecture |
| NB --- Sculpture |
| NC --- Drawing. Design. Illustration |
| ND --- Painting |
| NE --- Print media |
| NK --- Decorative arts |
| NX --- Arts in general |
| TR --- Photography |
| TT --- Handicrafts, Arts and Crafts |
Libraries using the LOC classification system will also use LOC subject headings to help you identify all of the library's holdings on a particular topics. Some subject headings that may be useful include:
For a full list of subject headings that can relate to your specific area of interest, see the official Library of Congress Authorities. You can search with keywords or browse the entire list of subject headings.
Art Law in a Nutshell by
Art Law in a Nutshell presents an overview of the legal issues concerning art. It covers the definition of art, and the theft and movement of art in wartime and peacetime. It examines the business of art for artists, dealers, museums, and collectors, including art as an investment, auctions, authentication, insurance, tax issues for artists and collectors, working artist issues, and aid to the arts. It also explains the intellectual property issues of copyright, trademark, moral rights and economic rights, right of publicity, and First Amendment freedom of expression rights. The latest introduction was written by a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals judge who actually wrote at least one of the opinions discussed in the book.
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Cultural Law by
This unique collection of materials and commentary on cultural law covers a broad range of themes. Opening chapters explore critical issues involving cultural activities, artifacts, and status as well as the fundamental concepts of culture and law. Subsequent chapters examine the dynamic interplay of law and culture with respect to each of the core themes. The materials demonstrate the reality and efficacy of comparative, international, and indigenous law and legal practices in the dynamic context of culture-related issues. Throughout the book, these issues are presented at multiple levels of legal authority: international, national, and subnational.
The AAM Guide to Provenance Research by 
Visual Arts and the Law by
This essential handbook offers art professionals and collectors an accessible legal analysis of important principles in art law, as well as a practical guide to legal rights when creating, buying, selling and collecting art in a global market. Although the book is international in scope, there is a particular focus on the US as a major art centre and the site of countless key international court cases. This authoritative but accessible and wide-ranging volume is essential reading for arts advisors, collectors, dealers, auction houses, museums, investors, artists, attorneys and students of art and law.
Art and Cultural Heritage: Law, Policy, and Practice by
Art and Cultural Heritage is appropriately, but not solely, about national and international law respecting cultural heritage. It is a bubbling cauldron of law mixed with ethics, philosophy, politics and working principles looking at how cultural heritage law, policy and practice should be sculpted from the past as the present becomes the future. Art and cultural heritage are two pillars on which a society builds its identity, its values, its sense of community and the individual. The authors explore these demanding concerns, untangle basic values, and look critically at the conflicts and contradictions in existing art and cultural heritage law and policy in its diverse sectors. The rich and provocative contributions collectively provide a reasoned discussion of the issues from a multiplicity of views to permit the reader to understand the theoretical and philosophical underpinnings of the cultural heritage debate.
Art Law: The Guide for Collectors, Investors, Dealers, & Artists by
Widely acknowledged as the cornerstone reference for visual art professionals and their attorneys since it was first published in 1989,Art Law provides unsurpassed legal, business, financial, tax, and estate planning information and guidance for this major sector of thecreative arts.Written by two of America’s foremost art law authorities, the new fourth edition of Art Law enables you to • Draft effective agreementsclearly defining the rights and obligations of the parties involved, whether they’re artists, dealers, collectors, investors, appraisers,museums, or auction houses • Create tax-advantaged strategies for collectors and artists - with the help of detailed coverage ofcomplete and partial inter vivos charitable transfers, noncharitable transfers, deductions of expenses when selling collections, outright bequests of artwork, and income tax deductions for expenses when creating art • Minimize the legal exposure of clients -by helping collectors avoid valuation errors, dealers avoid conflicts of interest, artists avoid copyright infringement, and auctionhouses avoid antitrust violations and other illegal practices.Just published, the new fourth edition has been completely updated to reflect the most recent legal developments and business trendsand includes new material on such areas as Holocaust-looted art, stolen art claims by sovereign entities, and the liability of sellers andcurrent owners in such cases. Art Law includes a host of step-by-step, field-tested checklists and a vast storehouse of adaptable modelagreements involving collectors and dealers, owners and dealers, and dealers and dealers, as well as forms for appraisals, fine artlicenses, property exchanges, tax-free exchanges, loans and promised gifts from artists’ estates, dealings with auctionhouses, privateand public commissions, and museum donations.Distilling an immense body of law into two practical, transaction-oriented volumes, the new fourth edition of Art Law isrequired reading for anyone who buys, sells, collects, appraises, authenticates, exhibits, restores, invests, or advises in the visual art world.
Art Law Conversations: A Surprisingly Readable Guide for Visual Artists by
Like most serious businesspeople, professional artists equate learning the law with hanging from their thumbs above enormous vats of boiling oil. "Art Law Conversations" provides a soothing alternative. This "surprisingly readable guide" engages the reader with 32 conversations about the legal topics artists face in their professional careers. From copyright to contracts, each conversation is packed with information and internet links for further study.
Legal Guide for the Visual Artist by
Among the many new topics covered in this comprehensive guide are: detailed coverage of the myriad developments in copyright (including online copyright registration procedures and use of art on the Internet); changes in laws protecting artists in artist-gallery relationships are explained in depth; scope of First Amendment protections for graffiti art and the sale of art in public spaces; detailed as well as new cases dealing with art and privacy; and a model contract for Web site design and much more. The book also covers copyrights, moral rights, contracts, licensing, sales, special risks and protections for art and artists, book publishing, video and multimedia works, leases, taxation, estate planning, museums, collecting, grants, and how to find the best professional advisers and attorneys.
Art and Law (UBorrow Link) by
The essays in this book arise from a course of lectures and seminars given at the Catholic University of Louvain by a group of leading Belgian and Dutch art law experts. Ranging widely across a diverse terrain, these essays provide a unique resource and perspective on problems old and new confronting those interested in the relationship between art and law. The topics covered extend from preservation of archaeological heritage across droit de suite, artistic freedom, erotic art, art in time of war, the moral rights of artists and much more, to provide a uniquely provoking and subtle investigation of this area of law. The book is a co-publication with the Belgian publishers Die Keure and Mercatorfonds.
Private International Law, Art and Cultural Heritage by
This timely book demonstrates how full account can be taken of the structure and method of private international law in its expanding relationship with cultural heritage law, identifying opportunities for keeping pace with the underpinning value judgments. Through a global lens, Roodt explores how value-rationality and mutuality can defeat the dogmatic underpinnings of conflicts and jurisdiction rules that frustrate the achievement of global solidarity in public policy decisions and the treatment of foreign public law. The satisfactory settlement of claims based on ownership and the restitution of art and cultural objects requires improvements in the approaches and methods of dispute resolution that prevail today. The author reveals hidden dimensions of private international law, which can help re-script these approaches and methods to better tailor them to the illicit trade in cultural objects, title laundering, the suppression of policy considerations and ethical concerns that support the restitution of Nazi spoliated art. International officials and policymakers will find this a unique and ethically comprehensive resource, addressing matters that impact the artistic, cultural and historical record and the safeguarding of cultural and heritage objects within the contemporary art market. Adjudicators, law enforcement officials and legal scholars will appreciate its fresh and inclusive treatment of issues including restitution, material heritage and provenance.
Intersections in International Cultural Heritage Law by
The recent spate of threats to cultural heritage, including in Iraq, Mali, Nepal, Syria, and Yemen, has led to increased focus on the sources of international cultural heritage law. This edited volume shows that international cultural heritage law is not a discrete and contained body of law, but one whose component parts are drawn from diverse fields of public international law. It shows how cultural heritage law has been shaped by its interaction with other areas of international law, and how it has contributed to international law in turn. In this volume, scholars and practitioners explore some of the primary points of intersection between international cultural heritage law and public international law. Chapters explore instersections with the law of armed conflict, international and transnational criminal law, international human rights, the international movement, regulation, and restitution of cultural artefacts, and the UN system. The result is a cohesive collection that not only explores many facets of the intersections of cultural heritage law and public international law, but also examines how the regimes operate together and how the relationship between them largely facilitates, but also sometimes hinders, the development of international law governing the protection of cultural heritage.
Art and Law: The Copyright Debate (UBorrow) by
Art: imagination, expression, freedom, making. Law: regulation, statute, restriction, limitation. Between these two very distinct domains of human activity and social discourse there is a border of high tension: copyright.
Law of Copyright in Works and Literature and Art and in the Application of Designs by
The Making of the Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 includes over 20,000 analytical, theoretical and practical works on American and British Law. It includes the writings of major legal theorists, including Sir Edward Coke, Sir William Blackstone, James Fitzjames Stephen, Frederic William Maitland, John Marshall, Joseph Story, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. and Roscoe Pound, among others. Legal Treatises includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and other works of the most influential writers of their time. It is of great value to researchers of domestic and international law, government and politics, legal history, business and economics, criminology and much more.
Handy-Book of the Law of Copyright by 
Art and Modern Copyright by
This book is the first in-depth and longitudinal study of the history of copyright protecting the visual arts. Exploring legal developments during an important period in the making of the modern law, the mid-nineteenth to early twentieth centuries, in relation to four themes - the protection of copyright 'authors' (painters, photographers and engravers), art collectors, sitters and the public interest - it uncovers a number of long-forgotten narratives of copyright history, including views of copyright that differ from how we think today. As well as considering the distinct nature of the contribution of copyright to the history of the cultural domain accounted for by scholars of art history and the sociology of art, this book examines the value to lawyers and policy-makers today of copyright history as a destabilising influence: in taking us to ways of thinking that differ from our own, history can sharpen the critical lens through which we view copyright debates today.
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