Daniel Bejar’s Rec-elections (False Flag), an 8- by 12-foot American flag based on Abraham Lincoln’s 1864 re-election campaign banner

Westchester Community College’s Fine Art Gallery is closing a solo exhibition by Daniel Bejar today, a week earlier than scheduled, after it received complaints from veterans groups about a work in which the artist rearranged the stars on the American Flag to read “fake”. Bejar sees the early closure as a case of institutional censorship, but after discussing it with the gallery’s director, he complied with the decision to take down the exhibition.

I’m quoted in this Art Newspaper article.

The Satanic Temple filed a lawsuit on Thursday against Warner Bros. and Netflix, alleging copyright violation of its goat-headed statue, which appears in the new “Sabrina” series.

Lucien Greaves, co-founder of the Temple, opines here.

If the lord of the underworld finds no subversion in copyright infringement, then you know things are getting pretty grim for content lifters.

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Franck Davidovici’s “Fait d’Hiver” ad campaign for Naf Naf (1985).

A French judge has found Jeff Koons guilty in his four-year-long legal battle with the creator of a surreal 1980s ad campaign for a clothing brand who claims the American artist stole his work.

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“It just seemed like a way of exploiting the work of artists in the city for short-term gain in a really short sighted kind of way,” Marshall told the Chicago Tribune. “And so I made a decision at that time I would never do another public work.”

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Yes, yes it is. And not just litigation; legal services in general.

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In order to protect his name, the acting executors of the Estate of Professor Stephen Hawking applied for an European trademark. Logically, they applied for the wordmark STEPHEN HAWKING. But also a remarkable trademark was filed: his voice as a soundmark.

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