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Is a Cease and Desist About Irony, Hypocrisy or Legal Strategy?
A high-yield search for “Jeff Koons, balloon dog” shows the blue chip species still dominates. Jamie Alexander and Derek Song were surprised in late December of last year when they received a letter...
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Does Bravo’s New Gallery Girls Reality Show Rip Off an Indie Webcomic?
Detail of Gallery Girls #99, from the webcomic by Mary Blakemore (image via ceceliawestgallery.com) Rumors that Bravo was developing a new “reality” TV show based around the lives of Chelsea’s young,...
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Patrick Cariou Versus Richard Prince: Pick Your Side
Richard Prince, “Back to the Garden” (2008 ) (image via artnet.com) The art world is apparently supposed to line up behind Richard Prince. If you’re radical right now, you view intellectual property...
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Bravo Responds to Gallery Girls Controversy
On April 8, I wrote a story on Bravo’s Gallery Girls, a new reality show in the making, and the name and concept’s similarity to a popular independent webcomic, also called Gallery Girls. In this...
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Robert J. Lang On Origami, Sarah Morris Lawsuit
A small sample of Robert Lang compositions (via langorigami.com) Two weeks ago, Hyperallergic had the opportunity, to interview Robert J Lang, the origami artist who, along with several others, has...
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Prince v Cariou: How Much Does Fair Use Co$t?
An overlay GIF of one of Richard Prince's "Canal Zone" series with the author's De-appropriation. (via the web & the author) I’ve been brutal, lately, in my assessment of the Prince v Cariou...
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A New Way for Artists to Get Paid for Image Use
Paying to use an imgembed image (All screenshots by Hyperallergic) Though the internet allows for distributing media and imagery faster and wider than ever before, it has also taken ownership of the...
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Artist Avenges a Bad Review, Gets Fined for Copyright Violation #NSFW
Art critic Camilla Stockmann appears at the center of this controversial collage by Von Hornsleth, which was in a response to a critical review by the writer at Denmark’s Politiken newspaper. (image...
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Empty Vitrines at British Institutions Call for Copyright Reform
An empty display case at the National Library of Scotland (image courtesy National Library of Scotland, via Flickr) Museums and libraries in the United Kingdom are demanding copyright reform by leaving...
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Jeff Koons Sued by French Ad Guy for Plagiarism
Jeff Koons, “Fait d’Hiver” (1988) (Image courtesy of Christie’s) At what point does artistic appropriation become copyright infringement? A Jeff Koons sculpture has reopened the 50-year-old debate. The...
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Luc Tuymans Case Illustrates the Failure of Europe’s Copyright Laws
Part of the original photograph appropriated by Luc Tuymans, with part of his painting below (image via @EvaWittocx/Twitter) LONDON — Belgian artist Luc Tuymans, known for his paintings that rework...
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New Fair Use Guide Helps Distinguish Between Copyright and Copywrong
A chart from the CAA’s “Best Practices” infographic (all images screenshots by the author for Hyperallergic) Hoping to remedy pervasive and often crippling uncertainty among artists and art...
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European Copyright Reform Could Restrict Photography in Public Spaces
The Louvre at night, with the Pyramid censored (altered by 84user from a FOLP photo on Wikimedia) Restrictions on photographing or filming copyrighted art, architecture, or other objects in public...
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In Germany, Your #Foodporn Is Now the Property of the Chef
Traditional German #foodporn, likely unprotected under the country’s copyright law (photo by @thesauerkrautfoodtruck/Instagram) Think twice before you Instagram your Michelin star-studded meal — at...
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Museum Sues Wikimedia for Hosting Copyrighted Photos of Its Public-Domain...
A gallery of the images that are the subject of the Reiss Engelhorn Museum lawsuit on Wikimedia Commons. (screenshot of Wikimedia page by the author) (click to enlarge) On October 28 the Reiss...
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UK Affirms that Photographs of Public Domain Art Are Fair Use
Lorenzo Lotto, “Portrait of a Woman inspired by Lucretia” (16th century), oil on canvas. (via National Gallery/Wikimedia). The image on Wikimedia through the Google Cultural Institute is one of the...
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How User-Friendly Are Museum Image Rights?
A page from ‘Display at Your Own Risk”s catalogue, detailing the information for “A13790,” or Roger van der Weyden’s “Portrait of a Lady” (c. 1460) (click to enlarge) (all photos © Michael Gimenez) If...
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Warhol Foundation Moves to Preempt Lawsuit Over Prints of Pop Star Prince
One of Andy Warhol’s Prince prints was used to illustrate an article about the musician in Vanity Fair in 1984. (image via Andy Warhol Foundation legal document) The Andy Warhol Foundation filed a...
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A Legal Guide Helps Artists Make and Protect Protest Art
Harvard’s Cyberlaw Clinic lays out a handy set of information about copyright law and related issues in its new “Cyberlaw Guide to Protest Art.” (drawings by Jessica Yurkofsky, except where noted, and...
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Artists Learn About Appropriation, Fair Use, Copyright, and Copy-Wrong
The crowd at a previous “Getting Basic” event at SOHO20 Gallery (photo courtesy SOHO20 Gallery) The boundaries between appropriation and plagiarism, fair use and copyright infringement are notoriously...
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What Is Justice Amy Coney Barrett’s Record on Arts Funding?
Newly confirmed Supreme Court justice Amy Coney Barrett in 2018 (photograph by Rachel Malehorn via Wikimedia Commons) Sometimes it’s hard to turn lemons into lemonade. For better or worse, Amy Coney...
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“Dune” Crypto Group That Paid $3M For Rare Book Mocked For Thinking They...
A coalition of investors raised funds to purchase the film’s storyboard and announced they would “make the book public.”
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AI-Generated Artwork Not Eligible for Copyright, Judge Rules
The ruling argued that “human authorship is a bedrock requirement of copyright."
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Richard Prince Must Pay $650K+ to Artists for Using Their Work
A last-meeting agreement put a price on the artist's appropriation of the works of two photographers.
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