The administration of artists’ estates requires consideration of far more than physical artworks and copyright. A complex statutory regime provides for the transfer upon death of a myriad of economic and moral rights, and common law rights such as goodwill are increasingly relevant but often overlooked. Our panel will discuss ways to maximise protection of creative assets, consider the balance to be struck between enabling fair access to works and protecting artistic legacies, and highlight pitfalls to avoid when dealing with artists’ estates.

Michael Edenborough KC deals with all aspects of IP law and practice. He has acted for and advised UK Government departments, the UK IPO (for both patents and trade marks), CIPA, CITMA and AIPPI before the CJEU, the House of Lords and the Supreme Court. In the last few years, he has appeared twice in the Supreme Court, eight times in the Court of Appeal and in another six appeals, along with various trials and other applications.

Stephanie Wickenden specialises in Intellectual Property, Art and Media law. She has experience in a range of commercial chancery cases involving the creative and technology sectors, working on diverse matters such as contractual and tortious IT disputes, contentious trusts and estates matters involving creative assets and shareholder and directors’ disputes with breaches pertaining to IP.

Stephanie has a background in art and theatre prior to coming to the bar, and is particularly interested in the law applied to artistic rights and assets.

Stefano Theodoli-Braschi is interested in a wide range of Commercial and Chancery work, with a particular interest in matters concerning arts, culture and branding. He has appeared led and unled on a variety of matters in the High Court, IPEC and County Court, as well as in trade mark opposition hearings before the UKIPO, and recently completed the Postgraduate Diploma in Intellectual Property Law and Practice at the University of Oxford.

The session will be followed by drinks and canapés.