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Protectable “Art”: Urinals, Bananas, And Shredders, Richard H. Chused
Protectable “Art”: Urinals, Bananas, And Shredders, Richard H. Chused
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
Creative souls have long played with our imaginations, as well as our tastes, about what art may be. The resulting absurdist, dada, and everyday object art forces us to step back and ask a few intellectual property questions about what this art has done, undone, or reconstructed in the copyright world. The Copyright Act grants protection to “original works of authorship fixed in any tangible medium of expression, now known or later developed, from which they can be perceived, reproduced, or otherwise communicated, either directly or with the aid of a machine or device.” This Article explores how pranksterism, eccentricity, …
Laundering The Art Market: A Proposal For Regulating Money Laundering Through Art In The United States, Alessandra Dagirmanjian
Laundering The Art Market: A Proposal For Regulating Money Laundering Through Art In The United States, Alessandra Dagirmanjian
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
As high-net worth individuals have increasingly viewed art as a method of diversifying their portfolios, prices in the high-end global art market have exploded in the past several years. At the same time, investors have developed new methods for accessing art’s liquidity, such as art lending services and exchanges. While the changing character of art towards an asset class has opened the door to new investment opportunities, it has also left the art market particularly vulnerable to money laundering schemes. Existing characteristics of the art market, including a lack of uniform record-keeping standards among dealers and the speculative nature of …
The Billionaire’S Treasure Trove: A Call To Reform Private Art Museums And The Private Benefit Doctrine, E. Alex Kirk
The Billionaire’S Treasure Trove: A Call To Reform Private Art Museums And The Private Benefit Doctrine, E. Alex Kirk
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
Thanks to the new generation of billionaire art collectors, and the recent boom in the art market, a growing number of high-net-worth patrons are creating their own tax-exempt private art museums. These “jewel-box” museums provide invaluable public benefits, lead to growth and innovation in the private museum sector, and encourage donors to pursue more avant-gardes collecting strategies. This advantageous tax-saving strategy appeals to wealthy individuals, who wish to maintain control over their art collection, and still receive generous charitable income tax deductions. However, several private museums have recently come under fire due to private benefit concerns. To qualify for federal …
Appropriation And Transformation, Darren Hudson Hick
Appropriation And Transformation, Darren Hudson Hick
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
The recent decision in Cariou v. Prince has reinvigorated a pressing issue for the contemporary movement of appropriation art: how can art which is defined by its taking from other artworks hope to survive in the world of copyright? In this article, I consider the legal history leading to the Cariou case, including a series of suits brought against appropriation artist Jeff Koons, as well as strategies proposed by several theorists for accommodating appropriation art within the law. Unfortunately, largely due to vagaries of the law and the misunderstood nature of appropriation art, the matter remains unresolved. I argue that, …
The Incompatibility Of Droit De Suite With Common Law Theories Of Copyright, Alexander Bussey
The Incompatibility Of Droit De Suite With Common Law Theories Of Copyright, Alexander Bussey
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
Although proponents have recently been attempting to strengthen droit de suite, or artists' resale royalty rights, throughout the world, all laws based on the right are flawed — so much so that further implementation would have almost none of the positive effects that its sponsors hope for. This is to say that droit de suite, which is meant to protect young artists, actually discourages the creation of art by young artists, and reduces the amount of money an artist can make from a sale. Furthermore, droit de suite conflicts with basic common law notions of copyright and property and is …
Museum Policies And Art Images: Conflicting Objectives And Copyright Overreaching, Kenneth D. Crews
Museum Policies And Art Images: Conflicting Objectives And Copyright Overreaching, Kenneth D. Crews
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
Museums face steady demand for images of artworks from their collections, and they typically provide a service of making and delivering high-resolution images of art. The images are often intellectually essential for scholarly study and teaching, and they are sometimes economically valuable for production of the coffee mugs and note cards sold in museum shops and elsewhere. Though the law is unclear regarding copyright protection afforded to such images, many museum policies and licenses encumber the use of art images with contractual terms and license restrictions often aimed at raising revenue or protecting the integrity of the art. This article …
Sampling, Looping, And Mashing . . . Oh My!: How Hip Hop Music Is Scratching More Than The Surface Of Copyright Law, Tonya M. Evans
Sampling, Looping, And Mashing . . . Oh My!: How Hip Hop Music Is Scratching More Than The Surface Of Copyright Law, Tonya M. Evans
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
This article examines the deleterious impact of copyright law on music creation. It highlights hip hop music as an example of a genre significantly and negatively impacted by 1) the per se infringement rule applied in some instances to cases involving unauthorized sampling of sound recordings; and 2) traditional (and arguably erroneous) assumptions in copyright law and policy of independent creation and Romantic authorship. For decades hip hop producers have relied on the innovative use of existing recordings (most of which are protected by copyright), to create completely new works. Specifically, cuttin’ and scratchin’, digital sampling, looping and (most recently) …
Art & Atrocity: Cultural Depravity Justifies Cultural Deprivation, Jack Achiezer Guggenheim
Art & Atrocity: Cultural Depravity Justifies Cultural Deprivation, Jack Achiezer Guggenheim
Fordham Intellectual Property, Media and Entertainment Law Journal
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