ABOUT THIS CAMPAIGN
From working alongside artists around the world, we’ve recognised a clear problem: artists do not know what their rights are when their rights have been violated and what remedies they have. That is why Freemuse is launching a yearlong awareness-raising campaign aimed at artists to understand the artistic rights that they have.
Click here to see our first toolkit that explores what digital rights artists have online.
Digital spaces and online platforms are increasingly threatening artistic rights – whether it be governments using data bought from private companies to track and trace artists critical of politics, private companies defining community guidelines that censor art that go unsupported by human rights frameworks or harassment, doxing or trolling through false names or fake accounts.
Artists, particularly women and minorities, face large repercussions online when using their creative skills to express their opinions online. This is particularly prevalent when artists explore ideas critical of racial or gender inequality, body positivity, sexuality, religion. It’s time we take back the internet!
Freemuse believes that the right to fully participate in cultural rights must be ensured in both offline and online spaces and that this is predicated on protecting artistic rights and from online violence, particularly against women and minorities. The plethora of challenges facing artists in the online space, such as cyberstalking, trolling, doxing and harassment, need to be confronted.
That is why to launch our “Do You Know Your Artistic Rights” campaign, we will be covering digital rights that artists have. By raising awareness with artists that they have digital rights and remedies to violations, artists are given back control and can keep themselves safe with a range of tools.
