French court upholds infringement ruling against Koons and Pompidou

December 23rd, 2019 by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento

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

A French court held that the Koons’s company, Jeff Koons LLC, and the Pompidou Centre in Paris, where his work was due to be displayed, must together pay 20,000 euros (~$22,000) to French artist Jean-Francois Bauret’s family.

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