Artists’ rights and privileges

All creative work shown on this website remains the copyright of the artist.

Please respect copyright, do not reproduce or copy others’ creative works without their permission! Use our contact form to connect with the artists.

Copyright is understood as:
‘Copyright entitles the copyright owner to prevent the unauthorised copying (termed infringement) of the relevant work by others. There is no infringement unless actual copying takes place. Infringement occurs as a result of the unauthorised reproduction or publishing of the relevant work, or a substantial part of it, in one way or another. In some cases (where the content of the work is more important than its actual form), infringement takes place if an adaptation (modified form) of the work is made’ (VANSA, 2016: 103-4).

Copyright in South Africa is conferred and regulated by law under the Copyright Act, 98 of 1978.

For further information on how to copyright your work please see:

• Visual Artists Network of South Africa’s (VANSA) Best Practices Guide for Visual Artists in South Africa 2016, prepared for South African Department of Arts and Culture;

• The Law as it pertains to Photographers in South Africa;

• Creative Commons.

Artistists’ copyright on this site:

© iceeimage belongs to Thabang Nkwanyana

© Ginger belongs to Ginger Mahlamvu

© kk belongs to Kristen Kornienko