Cariou v. Prince, the Crying Wolf Continues

Photograph courtesy of AZRainman, via everystockphoto.

Yes, I was on vacation. I take a break and my e-mail box fills with folks sending me notices, updates, reminders, salutations, and grievances concerning one art/copyright article from the newspaper of record.

It seems ol’ Randy Kennedy (more on him later) has taken sides once again, this time with artists and lawyers who believe that artists are now suffering from North Korean-type cultural censorship. What I’m talking about is of course the imagined stringent U.S. Copyright laws.

I’m just now trying to recover from the ol’ holiday buzz, and this little fairy tale is not making things any easier. But, since I have been thinking about this alleged tyrannical censorship, I promise I will post my thoughts next week on this article and the Cariou v. Prince copyright case, a case I call the Roe v. Wade of the bourgeois art contingency. Stay tuned!

Tags: absurdity, bourgeois art, death of art, fair use, melodrama, tragedy