How Artists Can Protect Their Work and Their Legacies with Katherine de Vos Devine

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In this episode of Weird Finance, Paco speaks with Katherine de Vos Devine, an attorney specializing in art law. Katherine discusses the importance of legal and financial management for artists. She shares her journey from art history to law and explains why she chose to focus on the arts. Katherine emphasizes the need for artists to have an estate plan and highlights the emerging legal issues in the art world, particularly regarding fair use and AI. She also addresses the struggle artists face in balancing artistic integrity with commercial success. At the end of the conversation, Katherine speaks about the value of professional bookkeeping for artists and creatives and her personal experience working with the Hell Yeah, Bookkeeping team.

Katherine de Vos Devine (@devosdevine) is the principal attorney and founder of Implement Legal (@implement.legal), a boutique law firm that offers copyright, trademark, contract, and estate planning services to creative clients.

Katherine teaches Art Law at Queens University of Charlotte and is Co-Chair of the College Art Association Committee on Intellectual Property. Her academic research focuses on transformative use and appropriation art, and she has spoken widely about copyright law and artists’ rights at venues, including the University of California at Berkeley, Harvard University, and Art Basel. 

When she’s not working with clients, Katherine writes Protect Your Magic, a newsletter on intellectual property, contemporary art, and creative economies.

The theme music was written and performed by Andrew Parker, Jenna Parker, and Paco de Leon.

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