Due Diligence in Pompidou’s Jeff Koons Exhibition

Naked, by Jeff Koons. French court found this sculpture to infringe copyright.

Naked, by Jeff Koons. French court found this sculpture to infringe copyright.

Apparently the Pompidou wanted the Koons exhibition so bad it agreed to all of Jeff Koons LLC’s contractual demands, including the obligation to exhibit a work that turned out to infringe a third-party’s copyright. In-house counsel?