The purpose of this dissertation thesis is to familiarize professionals in the art market and legal practitioners based in Greece with the legal and practical issues regarding the establishment, operations and legal relationships of a Greek art gallery with various actors in the art market, particularly artists and sellers of art works, in the absence of a concrete handbook of legal and practical information pertaining to Greek art galleries.
The thesis consists of two extensive chapters. The first one focuses on the gallery’s legal forms, transactions and private agreements with artists, sellers and buyers of works of art, and draws particular attention to the selection of the legal form under which the gallery-to-be-established is going to operate, based on the assessment of various factors, the most common commercial acts performed by art galleries under Greek commercial law, and the key terms governing the contractual relationships between a) artists and galleries, and b) sellers, galleries (intermediaries) and buyers of art works. The second chapter explores the legal frameworks of protection of the art works traded through or by art galleries in Greece, namely the framework of cultural property protection and the framework of copyright protection, by distinguishing the scope and consequences of each one of them for the art gallery depending on the works concerned by the gallery’s activities.
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