Here’s Judge Stein’s opinion, Graham_v_Prince_7 18 2017 (via PDF format).

In essence, here’s Judge Stein’s reasoning:

Mainly alleging that Procter & Gamble did not stick to their licensing deal, Cincinnati-based photographer, Annette Navarro, is suing P&G for copyright infringement.

According to Cincinnati.com, “An expert retained by the attorneys in the case has estimated P&G could be liable for more than $75 million.”

Oral arguments in the “Monkey Copyright Case”, aka, Naruto v. Slater, were held yesterday at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals.

Here’s the video of the oral arguments (starts at 1:45). And here’s an article on how Slater feels after all this litigation. As the saying goes, litigation is like going in as a pig and coming out as sausage.

Very interesting read. Make sure you read the entire article.

A group of New York-based graffiti artists is suing fashion brand Vince Camuto for alleged misappropriation and infringement of their mural work after it was used in a recent marketing campaign for the label’s Spring/Summer 2017 line. The complaint, filed July 5 in US District Court, Central District of California, Western Division, seeks unspecified damages, restitution, and injunctive relief.

Via Artnet.

The artist’s “grandson, Maxim Lozovoy, told Ukrainian media that representatives of Koons acquired rights to two works in September 2010. One is the inspiration for Seated Ballerina; the other is the statuette on which Koons’s Ballerinas (2010-14) is based (showing a crouching dancer tying the laces of another; an edition is currently on display at the Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills).”

Via The Artnewspaper.

As they should.

Two interesting stories on artistic intent and control. One on Edward Albee and the other on David Mamet. Why is it that if an artist wants to control her artistic property or, god forbid, destroy it, the general public seems obliged to shriek and criticize the artist? Why is it that this public thinks they know better than the artist as to the artwork’s fate and, more so, that they have some “right” to read or view it?

It’s just “art,” people, just art. The world has more than enough creativity, and if you feel that your world would be sorely worse off without that one novel, painting or play, then you must have one very small world.