Tuesday, October 14, 2008

Fighting Forgery

In today's New York Law Journal, Joseph Gioconda argues that "the art community can learn from the actions taken by the luxury goods and consumer products industries as they face a similar threat from counterfeiters. These industries respond by demanding stricter penalties for offenders and stronger federal anticounterfeiting laws. ... Members of the art community can begin to combat forgers using some of the same federal anticounterfeiting laws, but to date they have not done so effectively."

Also in today's Law Journal [$], Benjamin Mulcahy surveys recent case law regarding the copyright termination right.