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Fresco removal might amount to moral rights infringement

The IPKat

The presence of works of art in the street or inside public buildings is nothing new. Exposing the tangible support of a work to the vagaries of the climate or destroying it outright, might however raise copyright issues, in particular regarding moral rights. Moral rights infringement The Court recalled that, under article L.

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St. Art Foundation v. Acko General Insurance: Decoding Street Art, Fair use and Moral rights

SpicyIP

In St Art India Foundation v. Acko General Insurance , the Delhi High Court is faced with the opportunity to elaborate whether and how street art in general is subject to the Copyright Act, the scope of ‘artistic work’ under Sec. 52(1)(t) and ‘moral rights’ of the author in such work. Image from the order.

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Museums and moral rights

43(B)log

Hermon Atkins McNeil, The Sun Vow (at the NY Metropolitan Museum of Art): Note the card displayed below--on the left, in black on white: "By the 1890s, sculptural representations of Native American and western themes had become extremely popular.

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Infographic | Intellectual Property behind tattoos

Olartemoure Blog

National Tattoo Day is a perfect occasion to celebrate the art of tattooing, an ancient practice that has evolved into a mainstream cultural phenomenon. Tattoos are not just body art; they are unique expressions of personal identity. THE ART OF TATTOOING AND COPYRIGHT Tattoos are protected by copyright laws as original works of art.

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When is an artist entitled to refuse attribution of an artwork? Italian Supreme Court provides (final) guidance in long-running dispute over Jeff Koons’s The Serpents

The IPKat

As IPKat readers are surely aware, his fame extends well beyond the art world, given that Koons has contributed as litigant to some of the most interesting copyright case law around the world [see, eg, IPKat coverage here ]. Moral rights under Italian law and the issue before the Supreme Court Moral rights are not harmonized at the EU level.

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[Guest post] Anderson.Paak got a new tattoo- and we might have an idea why

The IPKat

Fritsch, both talented and enthusiastic former students of mine, which - while reviewing Anderson.Paak 's latest tattoo - discusses post-mortem moral rights protection and the value of a tattoo as an. What is the legal framework around posthumous released art and what is Anderson.Paak afraid of? advance (IP) directive.

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Using that classic piece of art on a book cover: Grr…

The IPKat

Works of art, in the form of the reproduction of a painting, frequently adorns the cover of a reissued edition of a renowned novel. What preoccupied Benjamin was how to understand the reproduction of works of art, especially in his seminal 1935 essay entitled, in English translation, "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction”.

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