This essential resource will help you to expertly guide clients through the intricate laws of intellectual property, tort, tax and customs that affect virtually all aspects of art transactions and disputes.

From a team of art law specialists, you get astute legal discussion and real-life answers for the matters vital to artists, purchasers, sellers, dealers and everyone else involved in the art world. You'll find the information you need on: *copyrights, trademarks, design patents and moral rights * legal aspects relating to new media * transacting business on the Internet and "nettiquette" * art theft * authentication and appraisals * auction transactions * international art transactions * restoration and conservation * tax issues for artists and purchasers * trust and estate planning * relationships between artists and dealers * and much more.

Plus, you'll save valuable research and drafting time with more than 40 proven contracts, notices, releases and other important forms - in print and on a FREE easy-to-use disk - including: copyright licenses, E-commerce and website development form agreements, commissioned artwork agreements, purchase greement,artist/gallery agreement, form will, and more. And more than 30 appendices give you instant access to important laws, treaties, information sources and other relevant material.

Roy S. Kaufman is a member of the Bar of the State of New York, and is co-chair of Intellectual Property Subcommittee on the Art Law Committee of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. He has published and lectured extensively on the subjects of copyright, new media, artists' rights and art law, and has represented publishers, artists, dealers, curators, website providers, and not-for-profit entities in connections with artist/gallery disputes, licensing, commissioned artwork agreements, theft, disputes, and related issues. Mr. Kaufman graduated from Brandeis University and Columbia Law School where he served as Executive Notes Editor of the Columbia-VLA Journal of Law and the Arts. He is currently Assistant General Counsel to John Wiley and Sons, Inc., a global multinational publisher.