Friday, 29 May 2015

US returns looted art to Italy

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This week saw the return by the United States of 26 pieces of art to Italy. Each work had been separately looted and subsequently smuggled o...
Tuesday, 19 May 2015

Replica of Old Summer Palace opens despite potential IP infringement claim by Chinese authorities

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A full-scale replica of Beijing’s Old Summer Palace has opened to tourists at Hengdian World Studios, a giant film studio located i...
Monday, 18 May 2015

Romero Britto sues Apple over copyright infringement

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Apple was recently sued by the Pop artist Romero Britto over its " Start something new " campaign for using an artwork from the d...

The Reach of the Lens

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One of The Neighbors Huge thanks to Molly Torsen Stech for the following guest post on the Svenson saga. For those not aware of this US...
Saturday, 16 May 2015

Greece rules out legal action to recover Elgin Marbles

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As reported by Jeremy , the Greek government publicly stated this week that it would not be pursuing restitution of the Elgin Marbl...
Friday, 15 May 2015

Hot off the Presses! On Art Attacks: At the Confluence of Shock, Appropriation, and the Law

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As some of our readers may recall, after a museum patron wrote on a Mark Rothko painting at the Tate Modern, I published an entry on A&A...
Thursday, 14 May 2015

Elgin Marbles: no litigation after all, but diplomacy to continue

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"Shall we go back to Athens, then? It's positively 'friezing' here in London ..." "Elgin Marbles legal action...
Monday, 27 April 2015

Virtual restoration of Mosul Museum to help track looted items

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An EU-led initiative plans to virtually restore the artefacts damaged by ISIS at Iraq’s Mosul Museum. Using crowd-sourced images to recreat...
Tuesday, 21 April 2015

The dirty side of artistic copyright: septic tank technical drawings are artistic works says the UK privy council

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It's all hands to the pump if the septic tank stops working... Judges are not art critics.  For that reason, the definition of an ...
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Saturday, 11 April 2015

Henderskelfe: Back from the dead

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The long-running tax dispute over Sir Joshua Reynolds'  Portrait of Omai , sold at auction for £9.4 million in 2001, finally came to an ...