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Sunday Surprises

The IPKat

Events NYU Law Forum - Memes on Memes and the New Creativity On 3 November 2021, NYU Law Forum - Memes on Memes and the New Creativity will be held online at 5:45PM (CET) for a discussion on the First Amendment, intellectual property, and art law to place a phenomenon of our digital era into a broader legal, historical, and cultural context.

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No Fair Use for Warhol Prince Photo

LexBlog IP

Art Law in Session To illustrate, Vanity Fair paid the Andy Warhol Foundation $10,000 to use his work (which borrowed significantly from Goldsmith’s photo), while People paid Goldsmith $1,000 for her image. It aims to protect their intellectual property from unauthorized use, reproduction, or distribution.

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Copyright for Architectural Designs

Art Law Journal

At that time, anyone could reproduce buildings that looked identical to those created by others, as long as they didn’t actually use copied drawings to build them. That is probably because, before 1990, there wasn’t much protection for building designs. With the passage […].

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Who Owns Works Created by a Freelancer?

Art Law Journal

Nobody can copy, distribute, or display the work without the author’s permission. Steve Schlackman. As a general rule, when an artistic or literary work is created, the author is the one that holds the copyright. When a painting is sold, the buyer owns the painting itself, but does not have the right to use that image for […].

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Apples and Oranges: District Court Grants Maurizio Cattelan’s Summary Judgment Motion in Copyright Claim Against His Art Basel Banana

LexBlog IP

1] ; The claim, which the Hughes Hubbard Art Law blog first reported on in December 2022, [2] arose from an art installation Cattelan created for Art Basel Miami Beach in December 2019 that consisted of a banana duct-taped onto a white wall. [3] Morford’s claim is barred by the copyright doctrine of merger.

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Stop, thief! How to win big in a copyright infringement case

Art Law Journal

The theft of your intellectual property, also known as an infringement, is not that different from any theft of your property — except you can’t go to the police to help you get justice. More importantly, copyright is a no-fault law so it doesn’t matter why or how the violation occurred.

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Which Type of Intellectual Property Protection Do I Need?

Art Law Journal

When people find out that I am an Intellectual Property attorney, I am often battered with questions about the topic. Few people would want something that they put their heart and soul into creating, whether that’s art, music, design, or an invention, being used or sold without their permission. Your Copy-Rights.