SAVE Our Bali, Save Our Art.” “The Law on Intellectual Pro­perty Rights is Violated, Artists are Immolated.” Posters bearing these words were displayed by dozens of artists when staging a demonstration sympathetic to Balinese painter Nyoman Gunarsa. On that day a fortnight ago, the Denpasar District Court held the first court hearing on the alleged violation of property rights involving Nyoman Gunarsa’s paintings.

The case started with