Artwork Blog Moral Rights 
The IPKat
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
Come with this Kat for a stroll around this week’s posts from IP blogs. This week, a controversy involving a famous Hollywood actor damaging one of Banksy’s artworks has taken the news and Aaron Moss, on Copyright Lately, discusses the possibility of Banksy suing the actor based on infringement of his (?) moral rights.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
APRIL 2, 2025
Background As recounted by Lyall (2024) , Finnish artist Sirpa Alalkkl and her husband Paul Palmer, who married in 1997 and separated some 20 years later, disputed the ownership of copyright in artworks she created during the course of their relationship. It addressed these questions as follows.
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Kluwer Copyright Blog
APRIL 22, 2024
Mango, in turn, sustained in its defence that (i) as the rightful owner of the physical Paintings, it was entitled to display them in public, and that (ii) the creation of digital works (i.e. Therefore, the moral right of “disclosure” had already been exhausted. an exploitation that caused them no harm).
Intepat
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
Section 57: This section emphasizes moral rights, which allow authors to protect the integrity of their works, regardless of whether they are pseudonymous or anonymous. State of Tamil Nadu (2021) This case involved the unauthorized use of an artwork created by an unknown artist.
The IPKat
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Not a copyright dispute … and the non-role of Article 14 of the DSM Directive In sum: the CHC provides a way to control for-profit reproductions of Italian cultural heritage, irrespective of their copyright status (it is in any case worth recalling that under Italian copyright law moral rights protection is … perpetual).
The Art Law Blog
JUNE 19, 2021
We only protect works for the life of the artist, with a few minor exceptions, but that’s basically the rule under the Visual Artists Rights Act.' "In In France, droits moraux, or 'moral rights,' would typically protect an artwork from such an act.
Kluwer Copyright Blog
FEBRUARY 28, 2024
The lawsuits brought by the owners of such works, including artworks in the case of image-generators and journalism in the NYT case, claim that this should not be allowed. Copyright Act is an extremely limited right, and fair uses of artworks are explicitly made exempt from attribution requirements. Fair Use Precedent?
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