About Artmob

Artmob is a multisectoral initiative designed to build large, accessible online archives of publically licensed Canadian art, and to foreground the issues that this process raises for Canadian copyright and intellectual property laws.

Artmob's approach to questions of arts policy is also singular. Canadian law reform is accelerating rapidly without any public input to inform the direction of policy development. Our digital infrastructure will facilitate the collection of both qualitative and quantitative data that will assist Canadian and International scholars and policymakers in addressing the technological, pedagogical, social, cultural and legal questions that publishing arts material in a publicly licensed open-source environment poses.

The Artmob Policy Centre functions as a public, working research repository for Artmob-related projects. It is intended to provide resources to like-minded scholars and to encourage the free exchange of ideas between and among researchers and arts partners.