Posted on: October 28, 2024 by Federica Monteleone
What happens when an artist incorporates third-party material into their work? What precautions should artists, dealers, galleries or museums take when creating, managing or selling such works? The seminar, Deal or No Dealing: Copyright and Fair Dealing/Fair Use in the Visual Arts, jointly hosted by the Institute of Art and Law and Howard Kennedy LLP […]
Posted on: February 19, 2024 by Molly Stech
On 25 January, 2024, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York entered judgements against appropriation artist Richard Prince and his co‑defendants Laurence Gagosian, the Gagosian Gallery and Blum & Poe Gallery. The cases are Graham v. Prince et al (15 cv 10160) and McNatt v. Prince et al (16 cv 08896). […]
Posted on: September 12, 2018 by Alexander Herman
A stern-looking man with a gun turns towards a metallic device mounted on the wall. He places one hand on the device’s handle and checks his watch. It is 12.04. Next we see an analogue clock hanging above a presenter reading the BBC radio news into a microphone. The time on the clock reads 12.05. […]
Posted on: February 16, 2017 by Alexander Herman
There is a very intriguing exhibition on at the moment at Modern Art Oxford featuring the artist Lubaina Himid. She makes political, opinionated and at times furious pieces in various media, from sculpture to canvas to pottery. The show is called Invisible Strategies and spans work going back to the artist’s early days in the 1980s to pieces created just last year. […]
Posted on: August 30, 2016 by Emily Gould
Our attention has been drawn yet again, this week, to the vexed question of ‘fair use’ as an exception to copyright protection under US law. When is a new work of art which draws on an existing copyright work acceptable, and when does it overstep the mark? The saga surrounding well-known appropriation artist Richard Prince […]
Posted on: October 5, 2015 by Alexander Herman
It was announced last week that two Belgian creators had reached a settlement in a copyright dispute highlighting the role (and limits) of copyright exceptions. One was a photographer, Katrijn Van Giel, who had taken a photograph of Belgian politician Jean-Marie Dedecker that appeared in De Standard newspaper in 2010. It was a fairly unique shot: creatively cropped […]