Artlaw is an extremely useful and comprehensive archive of art related legal issues, written by Henry Lydiate, art and law specialist, for Art Monthly magazine since its launch in 1976. New articles are added to the over 200 already existing each month. Sections include copyright, contracts, money, studios, censorship, moral rights, artists resale royalty rights and moral rights - this is an excellent first point of contact if you have a question about how the law relates to a particular area of visual art or crafts activity.
London based visual arts and crafts professionals can also request free, basic online legal advice from our team of legal specialists. Artlaw is also a first point of contact with what can be a daunting and expensive process, or it can just set your mind at rest that you're on the right track. Within the Artlaw pages you can also find a range of useful links (in many of the 13 sections of Artlaw) and links to other legal advisors. After checking these links and services, you can send a query via our online form to Artquest which we will forward to our legal specialists.
More information on how the Artlaw service works is available on the about Artlaw page.