U.S. intellectual property law is firmly rooted in utilitarian principles. Copyright law is viewed as a means to give … proper monetary incentives to authors for their creative effort. Many European copyright systems pursue additional goals … moral rights protection should differ across the Atlantic and whether a purely profit-based theory of copyright law is …

works build on the work of predecessors and they are potentially infringing copyright. In an application to the visual arts … of art. By doing so, they risk infringing copyright but also put commercial trade and availability of the work at …