The Source for Art & Law
Well, sort of. We’d like to call this art project borderline idiotic, but we’d hate to offend anyone who may actually like it. However, this project does make us think we should add a “Make Believe” category to this blog. …
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Or maybe it’s the other way around. Our friends at Techdirt seem to believe that it is “crazy” to have a documentary film project raise copyright licensing fees through Kickstarter. But why? We think it’s a good idea to have…
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As some of you may remember, last May a California judge ruled that California’s Resale Royalty Act was unconstitutional. The essence of Judge Nguyen’s ruling holds that because the Resale Royalty Act applied to artwork…
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Why not just get releases? That’s pretty much what the Swiss court said.
And so what if Warhol’s Mao is wearing make-up. Is it that bad?
What does an artist do about the home mortgage crisis? Glad you asked! According to LA Weekly magazine, last October, CalArts alum, Olga Koumoundouros, “took over a foreclosed home across the street from where she lived…
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Got this quote from a friend. Nicely summarizes the “death of the author” absurdity. “No one wonders, for example, why Roland Barthes signed his name to the famous essay ‘The Death of the Author’ (which is unfailingly…
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