The Weekend: Copies and Returns

This weekend was pretty quiet art law wise, but there were two interesting articles; one from the Wall Street Journal and the other from Ray Dowd’s Copyright Litigation Blog.

The WSJ covers the business of authorized replicas and their effect on how tourists see and experience art. Dowd’s blog article focuses on what Dowd calls “the the misbehavior of U.S. museums and their lack of adherence to the Washington Principles on Nazi-Confiscated Art.” Dowd continues:

U.S. museums have it backwards and should be trying to figure out whose stolen property they are holding.  It was heartwarming to hear Goldstein affirm that museums do not have a fiduciary duty to litigate all claims and defenses relating to the stolen art in their collections.

Both worth reading; check them out.

Tags: aam, aamd, Art Law, fake art, nazi loot, Repatriation