Oral arguments took place July 28, 2020. Sorry for delay…Covid crazy over here.

Felix Gonzalez-Torres interviewed by Hans-Ulrich Obrist for the Museum in Progress’s, “Portraits of Artists”. Follow The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Family Archive via Instagram, and via their website. This is very, very rare footage which, as you can see from the comments, allows the viewer to hear Gonzalez-Torres’s voice for the first time.

museum in progress organised the series “Portraits of Artists” (1992–2001) – conversations with international artists who were exhibiting and/or taking part in a symposium in Vienna. The interviews of different lengths were recorded in the blue box with the artists as talking heads face on to the camera and the interviewer’s voice off-screen. The artists usually chose their interview partners themselves, creating a basis of trust between the interlocutors. The artists were also able to choose the background colour, which was added afterwards, and decide which parts of the interview should remain in the final version and which should be edited out. Thanks to this artistic concept, which was conceived by Peter Kogler and museum in progress, the interviews offer authentic portraits of the artists.

It is clear from the outset that the primary purpose of the bill is to add a postmortem provision to New York law, one that would extend rights for forty (40) years after a person’s death. The bill also would address concerns over the use of digital replicas of deceased individuals. The bill also will protect people from the circulation of nonconsensual intimate images, including simulated performances.

Good overview via Jennifer Rothman.

In settling the class-action lawsuit, the foundation agreed to pay workers a total of $205,000 as well as $70,000 in legal fees[.]

More here.

The Copyright Office will host a webinar on July 15, 2020, at 2 p.m. eastern time on the new group registration option for short online literary works—for example, blog entries, social media posts, and online articles

Under this option, applicants may register up to fifty short online literary works with one application and one filing fee. To qualify, each work must contain at least 50 but no more than 17,500 words. The works must be written by the same individual, or co-written by the same individuals, and each writer must be named as the copyright claimant or claimants for each work. The works must be first published online within a three-calendar-month period. If the Office registers the claim, the registration will cover the text in each work as a separate work of authorship.

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Put briefly, their use of photographer’s photo is fair use. Opinion from Southern Dist of NY here. That’s the image in dispute, of Eddie Van Halen, above right. Incidentally, are you a David or Sammy fan?

The Washington NFL franchise announced today, July 13, 2020, that it will drop the “Redskins” name and Indian head logo immediately, bowing to decades of criticism that they are offensive to Native Americans.

What about the trademarks?