Art and Artifice

The IPKat reports here that although Bansky is relatively relaxed in respect of the use of his artwork by others he has a registered trade m...

In a recent decision of the United States Court of Appeals Second Circuit, another innocent buyer of a stolen painting has had to forfeit th...

Associated Press reports ("Chinese artist Ai Weiwei: Free in body, not voice") on the recent release of China's best-known det...

As predicted, the claim filed by the tattoo artist responsible for Mike Tyson's facial art, S Victor Whitmill, against Warner Brothers E...

A creature of its time: this mouse, part of the collection, with pipe, heavy eyelids and working-class credentials, may have been model...

As reported here , following the decision of the US district court for the DC Circuit in the case of Chabad-Lubavitch v Russia in 2010, Rus...

Though the title may suggest the result of a great party over the weekend, it actually refers to the most recent copyright battle set in Hol...

An example of Sarah Morris's art: this is a coloured-in, unfolded work entitled 'Black Beetle'. What is the test of infring...

Not every reader of this weblog will be intimately familiar with the European Union's [Long title warning: name starts here ...] Counci...

Rome is apparently in uproar over the unveiling last week of a sculpture intended to portray the late Pope John Paul II , but which its det...