Tuesday, 18 August 2015

The Art of Protecting Design

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We are lucky to have another guest post from the wonderful Molly Torsen Stech: Knowing that other attorneys gracefully bridge the differen...
Friday, 7 August 2015

Kindness or Catastrophe? Australia's experience of resale royalty rights

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"Artist’s Resale Royalty in Australia: Strong evidence of a catastrophic decline in both sales and prices: Australia's Art Marke...
Sunday, 28 June 2015

Web-only art auctions: how will they work?

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"Goodman and de Pury launch web-only auctions with promises to keep down fees" is the title of a piece of news from Roland Arkell,...
Friday, 5 June 2015

Dammed if you do, damned if you don't: are sculptors worth more than scalers?

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"Hoover Dam artist wins $1.3 million in copyright lawsuit" is the striking headline of an article by Henry Brean in the Las Vegas ...
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...