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Fine arts. As to copyright in works of art, see the Copyright Act, 1911 (1 & 2 Geo. 5, c. 46). 'Artistic work' is defined by the Act as including 'works of painting, drawing, sculpture and artistic craftsmanship, and architectural works of art and engravings and photographs (s. 35). 'Work of sculpture' includes casts and models (ib.). 'Architectural work of art' is defined by the Act as 'any building or structure having an artistic character or design in respect of such character or design, or any model for such building or structure, provided that the protection afforded by the Act shall be confined to the artistic character and design and shall not extend to processes or methods of construction'; 'engravings' include 'etchings, lithographs, wood-cuts, prints, and other similar works, not being photographs'; and 'photograph' includes photolithograph and any work produced by any process analogous to photography (ib.). As to what acts amount to an infringement of copyright, see s. 2 of ...
Connoisseur
One well versed in any subject a skillful or knowing person a critical judge of any art particulary of one of the fine arts...
Criticism
The rules and principles which regulate the practice of the critic the art of judging with knowledge and propriety of the beauties and faults of a literary performance or of a production in the fine arts as dramatic criticism...
Dilettante
An admirer or lover of the fine arts popularly an amateur especially one who follows an art or a branch of knowledge desultorily or for amusement only...
Fine
Fine, a sum of money or mulct imposed upon an offender, also called a ransom. See PENALTY.An amicable final agreement or compromise of a fictitious or actual suit to determine the true possessor of land, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 646.A sum of money paid by a tenant at his entrance into his land; or for the renewal of a lease; and see FINES IN COPYHOLDS.An assurance by matter of record, founded on a supposed previously existing right, abolished by the Fines and Recoveries Act, 1833 (3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 74). In every fine, which was the compromise of a fictitious suit and resembled the transactio of the Romans, there was a suit supposed, in which the person who was to recover the thing was called the plaintiff, conusee, or recognisee, and the person who parted with the thing the deforceant, conusor, or recognisor. It was termed a fine for its worthiness, and the peace and quiet it brought with it'finis fructus exitus et effectus legis. There are five essential parts to the levying...
Fines in copyholds
Fines in copyholds. A fine which is preserved by 12 Car. 2, c. 24, s. 6, is a sum of money payable by custom to the lord. There are three classes of fines:- (1) those due on the change of the lord; (2) those on the change of the tenant; and (3) those for a licence to the tenant to do certain acts.When the fine is due on the change of the lord, such change must be by the act of God, and not in consequence of any act of the party. It can therefore be only claimed on the death of the lord.When it is due on the change of the tenant, it matters not whether that change is effected by the act of God, or by the tenant's own act. Whenever the tenancy is changed, a fine is payable.Those fines which are due to licenses by the lord, to empower the tenant to do certain acts, as to demise, etc., are rare. There must be a special custom to support such fine, for, by general custom, fines are due only on admissions.The admission fine is prima facie uncertain and arbitrary, or rather arbitrable, unless...
Eacutetude
A composition in the fine arts which is intended or may serve for a study...
High wrought
Wrought with fine art or skill elaborate...
Posture
The position of the body the situation or disposition of the several parts of the body with respect to each other or for a particular purpose especially Fine Arts the position of a figure with regard to the several principal members by which action is expressed attitude...
Provenience
Origin source place where found or produced provenance used esp in the fine arts and in archaeligology as the provenience of a patera...
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