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“Dune” Crypto Group That Paid $3M For Rare Book Mocked For Thinking They Owned The Rights

by Sarah Rose Sharp January 18, 2022January 18, 2022

A coalition of investors raised funds to purchase the film’s storyboard and announced they would “make the book public.”

Posted inOpinion

What Is Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Record on Arts Funding?

Avatar photo by Brian Frye October 29, 2020November 5, 2020

Coney Barrett’s goal to build a “Kingdom of God” as a Supreme Court justice has threatened many livelihoods. How will her policies fare the arts?

Posted inArt

Artists Learn About Appropriation, Fair Use, Copyright, and Copy-Wrong

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton January 31, 2018

The blurry legal territory distinguishing copyright infringement from fair use, and appropriation from plagiarism, will be explored on Friday at SOHO20 Gallery.

Posted inNews

A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest Art

by Sarah Rose Sharp January 30, 2018January 29, 2018

Harvard University’s Cyberlaw Clinic and metaLAB have created a free guide for making protest art while navigating intellectual property law.

Posted inIn Brief

Warhol Foundation Moves to Preempt Lawsuit Over Prints of Pop Star Prince

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 17, 2017

Photographer Lynn Goldsmith claims Andy Warhol infringed on her copyright in 1984 when he made a series of prints based on her portrait of Prince.

Posted inArt

How User-Friendly Are Museum Image Rights?

by Claire Voon June 10, 2016June 22, 2016

If you’ve ever considered downloading a digital image of an artwork from a museum’s website, you probably know rather well that the world of copyright is an incredibly murky and difficult one to navigate.

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UK Affirms that Photographs of Public Domain Art Are Fair Use

Avatar photo by Allison Meier December 14, 2015December 14, 2015

An ongoing dispute with digital cultural heritage is whether high-resolution images of artworks in the public domain have a copyright when the photograph itself is new or improved.

Posted inIn Brief

Museum Sues Wikimedia for Hosting Copyrighted Photos of Its Public-Domain Artworks

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton December 8, 2015December 9, 2015

On October 28 the Reiss Engelhorn Museum (REM) in Mannheim, Germany, filed a lawsuit against the Wikimedia Foundation for making high-resolution images of public domain artworks from its collection available for download.

Posted inIn Brief

In Germany, Your #Foodporn Is Now the Property of the Chef

by Claire Voon August 27, 2015

Think twice before you Instagram your Michelin star-studded meal — at least, if you’re dining in Germany, where even the food on your plate may be subject to copyright law.

Posted inNews

European Copyright Reform Could Restrict Photography in Public Spaces

Avatar photo by Allison Meier June 23, 2015

Restrictions on photographing or filming copyrighted art, architecture, or other objects in public might get stricter in the European Union.

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New Fair Use Guide Helps Distinguish Between Copyright and Copywrong

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton February 9, 2015February 13, 2015

Hoping to remedy pervasive and often crippling uncertainty among artists and art professionals over how and when to invoke fair use when dealing with copyrighted materials, the College Art Association (CAA) has released a “Code of Best Practices in Fair Use.”

Posted inOpinion

Luc Tuymans Case Illustrates the Failure of Europe’s Copyright Laws

by Lewis Bush January 23, 2015January 26, 2015

LONDON — Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, known for his paintings that rework existing photographic source material, has been found guilty of plagiarism in a European court for using a copyrighted photograph as the inspiration for an artwork.

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