Friday, 20 January 2017

How art and law can work together beyond the marketplace

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Art & Artifice is pleased to bring readers a guest post from Sonia K. Katyal and Joan Kee , who recently co-wrote the article "Ho...
Thursday, 31 March 2016

Palmyra recaptured: restoration begins

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Syrian troops recaptured Palmyra from the Islamic State last week, at the close of three weeks of intense fighting. The ancient city had bee...
Saturday, 20 February 2016

Sex Pistols' photographer threatens to sue Elizabeth Peyton for copyright infringement

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Dennis Morris, renowned photographer and artist, well-known for his photographs of musicians and cultural icons such as Bob Marley and the ...
Thursday, 18 February 2016

Experts call on UK government to sign the 1954 Hague Convention this year

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Members of the House of Lords and leading cultural heritage experts are lobbying the UK government to ratify the 1954 Convention for the Pr...
Wednesday, 9 December 2015

Copyright infringement and public domain artworks: German museum sues Wikimedia

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Last week Wikimedia  announced  that it is being sued by a German museum for copyright infringement after 17 images of public domain works o...
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Thursday, 3 December 2015

La Bella Principessa: a Da Vinci or a copy?

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The famous British art forger, Shaun Greenhalgh, who was imprisoned between 2007-2012, recently claimed to be the author of La Bella Princip...
Thursday, 26 November 2015

Bye!

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This is just a quick post to say “goodbye”, now that I’m retiring from active involvement in intellectual property.  I have enjoyed my job ...
Thursday, 15 October 2015

Museum directors agree protocols to provide safe havens for endangered antiquities

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Amidst armed conflicts in Syria and Iraq, the Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) has announced the release of protocols to help sa...
Friday, 9 October 2015

Cultural heritage destruction prosecuted as a war crime for the first time: Islamist militant appears before ICC

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In the first case of its kind, an alleged Islamist militant accused of destroying ancient monuments in Mali appeared last week at the Inter...
Thursday, 8 October 2015

"God Hates Renoir": A grass roots art critic speaks out

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A strange tale of grass roots art criticism has unfolded in Boston this week.  An Instagram account started by one Max Gellar, entitled...