Artist and writer, Nate Harrison, pens a good argument regarding the Cariou v. Prince decision and how it, as I also have noted, does not necessarily signal not only a lazy approach to art making, but also does not align itself with US Copyright's requirement that fair use promote the progress of the arts. Great read.
Just back from London, but I heard about this last week and have been meaning to write a bit about it. According to Texas-based, Big Bend Now, Playboy Enterprises Inc. has begun installing a large-scale sculpture on the outskirts of Marfa, but mystery surrounds the motives behind the installation. The installation consists of the Playboy bunny icon onto of a 40-foot pole and a muscle car sitting on top of a concrete block. Other than that, little is known about this art project. For one, Playboy is leasing about 6,500 square feet of land and, two, according to Presidio County Judge ...
Seth Siegelaub passed away last week. Curator and artist, Lauren van Haaften-Schick provides a vivid memory of Seth, giving him credit and thanks for more than just artistic production. Seth Siegelaub’s simple dictum “You don’t need a gallery to show ideas” remains the intellectual, creative, and logistical underpinning of much conceptual, immaterial, and publication-based art practice. In shifting his activity to adapt and react to the inequities of the art world, Siegelaub put forth a premise designed to be expanded upon, presenting an alternative system of values and terms for working in and producing ...
A major pro-artist and pro-student legal decision was handed down yesterday, pertaining specifically to unpaid internships. This is a must-read for art galleries and private art institutions. A Federal District Court judge in Manhattan ruled on Tuesday that Fox Searchlight Pictures had violated federal and New York minimum wage laws by not paying production interns. According to the NY Times, "Judge William H. Pauley III forcefully called for following criteria that the Department of Labor has laid out for unpaid internships. Those rules say unpaid internships should not be to the immediate advantage of the employer, the ...
British artist Phil Thompson's art project, Copyrights, critiques the Google Art Project and its grand attempt at bringing art to the masses. In his project, Thompson makes screen grabs of the blurred images in his browser window, sends them to the Dafen Oil Painting Village in China and then exhibits those works in a gallery. Keep in mind that due to copyright concerns Google blurs out certain art works in the Art Project. What we like about this project is that instead of lamenting how copyright denies and thus oppresses our "right" to access and view free art, Thompson takes a ...
Walt Disney Co.’s Marvel Entertainment must go to trial to defend against a copyright claim by Gary Friedrich, who claims he created the comic book character “Ghost Rider,” a motorcycle-riding superhero with a flaming skull.
The case is Gary Friedrich Enterprises LLC v. Marvel Characters Inc., 12-00893, U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. U.S. Judge Denny Chin wrote on behalf of a three-judge panel.
This story is a bit unclear, but it seems that the issue boils down to who owns the actual Polaroids: the Warhol Foundation or Frans Wynans Fine Art.
British artist Phil Thompson‘s art project, Copyrights, critiques the Google Art Project and its grand attempt at bringing art to the masses. In his project, Thompson makes screen grabs of the blurred images in his browser window, sends them to the Dafen Oil Painting Village in China and then exhibits those works in a gallery.
Keep in mind that due to copyright concerns Google blurs out certain art works in the Art Project. What we like about this project is that instead of lamenting how copyright denies and thus oppresses our “right” to access and view free art, Thompson takes a much more poetic and critical position by — gasp! — appropriating those blurred out artworks making art out of them. Kind of reminds us of Allan McCollum’s Perpetual Photos (1982-89) of paintings seen in television shows which McCollum then photographs, enlarges, and exhibits as blurry photographs. Love it!
Via Wired.
Cowboys Milking. Cady Noland, 1990.
In a case with implications for artists’ rights and auction house contracts, a New York state court dismissed on a $6 million lawsuit brought against artist Cady Noland by dealer Marc Jancou. The suit alleged Noland interfered with the contract to sell the work Cowboys Milking, 1990, owned by Jancou, when she disowned it in November 2011, a few days before it was scheduled to be auctioned at Sotheby’s.
Via The Art Newspaper.
The Center for Intellectual Property Law & Information Technology (CIPLIT®) and The Chicago Bar Association Media and Entertainment Committee present “The Visual Artist’s Rights Act, Copyright and Conceptual Art: Creating and Protecting Art After Chapman Kelley v. Chicago Park District,” featuring Artist Chapman Kelley and Founding Director of CIPLIT, Professor Roberta Kwall.
This event is in Chicago!
That’s right. Don’t even think about using the “I [heart] NY®” logo, or for that matter, the “I [heart] [insert whatever you'd like here],” or you’re pretty much guaranteed to receive a cease-and-desist letter from NY state’s Department of Economic Development.
And certainly don’t get a tattoo of it.
The Velvet Underground has settled a legal fight with the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts over the rights to the iconic pop art image of a banana used by the Velvet Underground in their notorious album.
In the lawsuit, the Velvet Underground claimed exclusive use of the banana design for licensed merchandising. The lawsuit sought damages and an injunction to prevent the foundation from licensing the image. Apparently the Warhol Foundation was planning to license the banana design to Apple Inc. for iPhone and iPad products.
Obviously, no terms of settlement were released.
More via Reuters.
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