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Transit Authority Unfairly Targets Renowned Artist
Hyperallergic questions whether or not New York City’s MTA is unfairly targeting street artist, Enrico Miguel Thomas. There is a legitimate policing function to the MTAPD, but repeatedly harassing a quiet, unobtrusive…
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A Day of Piracy, Publishing, and Copyright at the Courtroom
If you’re in London and interested in art & law, join me, professor Lionel Bently, Prodromos Tsiavos, and The Piracy Project at The Showroom for an afternoon of art, books, piracy, and copyright. With the recent Cariou…
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Through the Looking Glass
New York-based artist, Arne Svenson, and his “bird-watching” hobby seem to have drawn the ire of some of his neighbors, particularly those that find themselves represented in Svenson’s photographs without their consent. The…
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Fluxus, Maciunas, and Copyright
Yep, you heard right. The Fluxus Foundation has what seems a great art & law exhibition, © Fluxus: Original Copyright Documents, 1963-1967, at their foundation space at 454 West 19th St. From their website: …
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“Our money should be going to artists, not lawyers.”
That’s a quote from The Warhol Foundation’s, Joel Sachs, to which The New York Review of Books’ Richard Dorment replies, then “why, in uncertain economic times and when most financial experts consider blue-chip artists like…
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Fair Use Is In the Statute, Not the Statue
My good friend, Donn Zaretsky, disagrees with my earlier post concerning Calvin & Hobbes that when it comes to fair use we had it better pre-Cariou disaster. He cites an argument he made in 2009 after the Gaylord Korean…
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