| Beschreibung |
Every citation is a decision: about which voices, images, sounds, codes and procedures become visible in your work — and how. In artistic research, citation is therefore not merely a formal obligation at the end of a text but a compositional and ethical act: a way of situating your own practice, making its lineages legible, and acknowledging the relations that made the work possible.
This workshop introduces the fundamentals of citation and copyright, tailored to material that resists the standard bibliography: field recordings, samples, archival material, software and patches, datasets and models, conversations, workshop knowledge, performances, and collective or collaborative authorship. Topics covered: Citation as practice: why, whom and how we cite — visibility, credit, responsibility Citing non-textual sources: image, sound, moving image, code, data, archives, oral sources Copyright essentials (German/EU): what counts as a work, moral rights, rights of use, terms of protection The right of quotation (§ 51 UrhG) and its limits — and why "fair use" does not apply here Public domain, Creative Commons licences, open-source software licences Sampling, appropriation, remix: artistic methods in legal grey zones Collecting societies (GEMA, VG Wort, VG Bild-Kunst) — when they become relevant Image rights, personality rights and data protection when recording people Generative AI: training data, authorship, disclosure, open questions Clearing rights in practice: asking, negotiating, documenting Credits and authorship in collaborative and collective work The session combines short inputs, examples from our own practices, and — very much encouraged — concrete cases from participants' ongoing projects.
All participants receive a template and guidance sheet: citation models for non-standard sources, a rights-clearance checklist, and a permissions documentation form — for use in seminar papers, theses, funding applications and exhibition projects.
The workshop offers orientation, not legal advice. |
