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Transgressive street artist may lose intellectual property
Apparently Banksy's anonymity and surreptitious art practice is costing him...big time. “Banksy has chosen to remain anonymous and, for the most part, to paint graffiti on other people’s property without their permission, rather than to paint it on canvases or his own property,” the panel said.
License to use copyrighted work in connection with criminal activity
Public License for Criminal Use, 2014 - 2020Alfred SteinerNo physical dimensionsOffer, acceptance, consideration There's a lot of buzz during these Covid days concerning the employment of written agreements by artists. As I've indicated on this blog, this "practice" is nothing new, if by new we mean this year or the last few years. What is interesting to me is to see how creative artists get. A long-time friend of mine, artist and lawyer, Alfred Steiner has just released his Public License for Criminal Use. Below, he explains the origins of this contract and his intent with drafting such an agreement. One aspect ...
Art & Law Program celebrates 10 years!
Pictured here are the 2010 fellows at Michelle Maccarone Gallery for the artist exhibition. This month marks the 10th year of the Art & Law Program. The group pictured above is the first class of fellows, whom I thank dearly for putting up with chaos and an unforged path. I learned so much, and still do from each and every class. I think the Program hit its stride around 2014, and since then, like good wine, it's only gotten better. A huge thanks to all the supporters, especially Cornell Law dean Eduardo Penalver, Cornell Law School, Bob Balder and Brooke ...
Resale Royalties strike again…
One thing that really annoys me is how articles like this get written with absolutely no mention of well-known historical precedents, like Robert Projansky's and Seth Siegelaub's The Artist’s Reserved Rights Transfer And Sale Agreement, from 1971. God forbid there would be any mention of Hans Haacke or Michael Asher. A friendly reminder that artists using written agreements to obtain rights and obligations is nothing new. That's what a written agreement is and what it does.
“The more regulation you want, that is precisely what art is not about.”
Two very dear friends of mine, Lauren van Haaften-Schick and Kenneth Pietrobono, continue their exploration of art, socialism, activism, and a slew of other isms. They asked me to chat with them about “redistribution” and the success of activist art. Well, they didn’t quite ask me about the second but I talked about it nonetheless. We also discussed my disdain for symbolic artistic acts in law and whether the purchase of a non-functioning vehicle can be deemed to be “successful.” You can listen to the podcast audio here. If you just want the ...
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This past March, the developer defendants in the 5Pointz moral rights lawsuit filed a motion in the Second Circuit seeking a stay of the issuance of a mandate pending their filing of a petition for a writ of certiorari in the U.S. Supreme Court. Will the Supremes agree to hear this property vs. expression case?
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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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June 12th, 2020 by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento in Criminal
Comments Off on BREAKING: Inigo Philbrick arrested by FBI
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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June 8th, 2020 by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento in Employment
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June 5th, 2020 by Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento in Copyright / Moral Rights
Comments Off on Noland’s cabin?
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.
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