“No Artist is Ever Morbid”: How Far are Artistic Creations Protected under Current Hong Kong Laws?
Introduction Oscar Wilde once famously defended the artistic value of his hedonistic and homoerotic literature against moral judgment: “[t]here is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.” [1] Believing that “no artist is ever morbid”, Wilde believed that art could “express everything”. This pinpoints the dilemma between art and morality. More than a century later, modern societies continue to find it difficult to dra
