Commissions checklist
15 Credits and moral rights
- How will the work be credited? Note: The commissioner is usually responsible for preparatory site works. The necessary site works should be documented in the schedule, together with the intended timing to ensure that the site is ready for the installation of the work and for example, that any foundations have had time to harden.
- Will the artist assert his/her right of paternity? Note: The right of paternity requires the artist to be identified as the creator of the work whenever it, or a reproduction of it, is exhibited or issued to the public. This right must be asserted in writing unless the artist is identified on the work itself, or on the frame mount or plinth, in which case assertion is automatic.
- The artist's right of integrity is automatic Note: The right of integrity enables artists to have some control over their work and the way it is displayed after it is sold or out of the artist's possession, regardless of whether the artist owns the copyright. The law can not prevent the destruction of a work nor the resiting of a site-specific work, but it will allow the artist to have their name removed from 'distorted or mutilated' works or if the 'honour or reputation' of the artist is put at risk.
