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Some in Florida seem to believe it should be so. Or do they? Seems to me that what the proposed Florida law would hinder would be nothing more than trespass.The proposed Florida bill states that any person caught entering a…
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Or perhaps more importantly, reading them. I was just talking about release forms during last night’s Law School for Visual Artists class, and used Richard Prince’s Spiritual America (image of 10-yr old Brooke Shields) as an…
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If only Shepard Fairey had been this astute. About a year ago I wrote about how the copyright to the iconic Che Guevara image was being used to protect it from crass commercial use (Can Copyright Lawsuits Be Used To Protect…
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The public has the right to take pictures of public buildings from public spaces. According to the paper of record, last October, the New York Civil Liberties Union reached a settlement with the Federal Protective Service…
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The artist, AA Bronson, asked the National Portrait Gallery last week that it remove his photograph, Felix, June 5, 1994, which shows the corpse of Mr. Bronson’s partner shortly after he died of AIDS, from the NPG show,…
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If only Jr. had eaten his veggies. The Ray Charles Foundation is suing Charles’ son for copyright infringement, alleging Jr. used a photo of Sr. on the cover of Jr.’s new book, You Don’t Know Me: Reflections of My Father,…
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We love postcards. Who doesn’t? A gallery in my hometown of El Paso, Texas is installing an art exhibition consisting of paintings and postcards to proclaim that El Paso is not bloody Juarez, Mexico. According to The…
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