Images in question in the Graham v. Prince copyright infringement case. Oral arguments took place July 28, 2020. Sorry for delay...Covid crazy over here.
Felix Gonzalez-Torres interviewed by Hans-Ulrich Obrist for the Museum in Progress's, "Portraits of Artists". Follow The Felix Gonzalez-Torres Family Archive via Instagram, and via their website. This is very, very rare footage which, as you can see from the comments, allows the viewer to hear Gonzalez-Torres's voice for the first time. museum in progress organised the series "Portraits of Artists" (1992–2001) – conversations with international artists who were exhibiting and/or taking part in a symposium in Vienna. The interviews of different lengths were recorded in the blue box with the artists as talking heads face on ...
The Copyright Office will host a webinar on July 15, 2020, at 2 p.m. eastern time on the new group registration option for short online literary works—for example, blog entries, social media posts, and online articles Under this option, applicants may register up to fifty short online literary works with one application and one filing fee. To qualify, each work must contain at least 50 but no more than 17,500 words. The works must be written by the same individual, or co-written by the same individuals, and each writer must be named as the ...
Put briefly, their use of photographer's photo is fair use. Opinion from Southern Dist of NY here. That's the image in dispute, of Eddie Van Halen, above right. Incidentally, are you a David or Sammy fan?
Interesting article via JD Supra on an issue that keeps coming up: whether non-commissioned, illegal street art on private property is blessed with intellectual property and moral rights. "...despite the growing recognition of Black Lives Matter-inspired street art, including murals, illegally placed artwork will likely be subject to the wishes of the property owner. Even when an artwork achieves VARA protection, courts may still deny relief when the artwork has been installed without authorization from the property owner. Accordingly, artworks that are affixed to property, without the property owner's permission (e.g., vandalism), may be subject to destruction, ...
The temporary injunction order issued Monday says the state is a party to a deed recorded in March 1890 in which it accepted the statue and agreed to “faithfully guard” it.
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In a suit filed in New York Southern District Court on June 9, art historian Marc Restellini alleges that the Wildenstein Plattner Institute, a nonprofit organization that supports the production of digital catalogues raisonnés and archives, has made copies of and disseminated his research on the artist Amedeo Modigliani without his permission.
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The Federal Bureau of Investigation has detained Inigo Philbrick, a young art dealer who operated a scandal that has a range of disputes over works worth millions of dollars. The FBI said it had arrested Philbrick, Vanuatu, a Pacific island country, and that he was then transported to Guam. He is expected to appear before a Manhattan federal court on Monday, June 15.
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This copyright and VARA case seems to come to an end (for now). In reading the court’s opinion one gets the sense that Judge Oetken of the NY Southern District Court is a bit peeved by the linguistic acrobatics attempted by Noland’s lawyers.
The Art Newspaper’s Margaret Carrigan certainly thinks so.
Indeed, the silence of most galleries and museums about the protests has been as deafening as the sirens that have echoed through major cities across the nation—which is curious since they have been banging a loud drum about art’s relevance to society lately.
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The Guggenheim recently introduced an unlikely new term, “decommissioning,” into its collections management lexicon. In its conventional meaning the word suggests the retirement of old warships or power plants. But the museum has repurposed it to designate works in its permanent collection that it has “deemed to be non-viable.”
Interesting article.
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