Saturday, January 30, 2016

Knoedler Trial Day 5 (UPDATED 2X)

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Brian Boucher has you covered . UPDATE:  Here's NPR on the case. UPDATE 2:  Jerry Saltz tweets:  " [Freedman] will get off. In...
Friday, January 29, 2016

"That is an argument that should be made to Congress and the President, not to me."

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The monkey selfie opinion has been released.  Background here .

"Woman sues AP for taking and selling stock photo of her wearing a headscarf"

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Eugene Volokh thinks she will lose under New York law.  Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento agrees . Copyright Librarian Nancy Sims says it's a ...

Knoedler Trial Day 4 (UPDATED)

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Sarah Cascone reports here . UPDATE:  Some more general thoughts from Blake Gopnik.
Thursday, January 28, 2016

Knoedler Trial Day 3 (UPDATED 3X)

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Sparks flew . UPDATE:  Georgina Adam:  "' Secret Santa' seems a killer line ." UPDATE 2:  Art Advisor Jay Grimm is blo...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Knoedler Trial Day 2 (UPDATED 2X)

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Recap here . UPDATE:  More from ARTnews here . UPDATE 2:  " Lawyer for Ann Freedman uses fiction film to defend his client. How app...
Tuesday, January 26, 2016

"'There was even a Pollock with a misspelled signature,' she told the jurors."

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Day 1 of the Knoedler trial.
Monday, January 25, 2016

"We would not only be dwarfed by the scale, but I feel like I would be in a dungeon -- in chains."

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Bloomberg:   Manhattan's Next Super-Tall Condo Plan Faces Neighborhood Battle .  One of the issues is blocked light for a collector'...

Reminder: the Knoedler trial starts TODAY (UPDATED 2X)

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Excellent preview from Graham Bowley and Colin Moynihan in the Times here . UPDATE:   Another from Laura Gilbert in The Art Newspaper. ...
Sunday, January 24, 2016

It would also be a violation of VARA (UPDATED)

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The New York Post has a story today on the possible destruction of (my client) Dorothea Rockburne’s murals in the Sony building. The demo...
Saturday, January 23, 2016

Held in the public storage space

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Quartz:   Museums are keeping a ton of the world's most famous art locked away in storage .

"It seems almost like a stupidity trend among these fashion companies in not treating these graffiti artists as if they have rights in these images."

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The copyright infringement suits by graffiti artists continue to pile up .  " Outlaws asserting their property rights ."

Reminder: the Knoedler trial starts Monday

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The Wall Street Journal has a preview here .
Tuesday, January 19, 2016

"The secretive art market is almost purpose-built for such disputes."

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Felix Salmon on the latest art-world dust-up .
Friday, January 15, 2016

Ai Weiwei 1, Lego 0

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NYT :  "The Lego Group has said that it would no longer ask customers what they intend to do with bulk orders, following an outcry last...
Monday, January 11, 2016

Supreme Court declines to hear California Resale Royalty case

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Story here .  Background here .
Saturday, January 09, 2016

"It is up to the judge in Ms. Rosales’s case to decide how the $4.8 million raised in the Texas sale will be apportioned."

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The Rosales collection, quietly auctioned off .
Thursday, January 07, 2016

VARA claim in Detroit

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Story here .  It involves a mural, painted by artist Katherine Craig on the side of a building in 2009. One interesting twist is that appare...

BREAKING: Monkey loses selfie suit

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" U.S. District Judge William Orrick said in federal court in San Francisco that 'while Congress and the president can extend the p...
Wednesday, January 06, 2016

"If you can get away with this, what is left of copyright?" (UPDATED)

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Artnet's Brian Boucher talks to some experts about the latest Richard Prince lawsuit , and the above quote, from Stanford's Paul Go...