Dr. Elena Cooper Presents her Latest Article at Cardozo Law School:...
Author: Elsa Mitsoglou, J.D Candidate, Class of 2014, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Dr. Elena Cooper has been the Orton Fellow in Intellectual Property Law at Trinity Hall, Cambridge since 2009....
View ArticleTetris Holding v. Xio Interactive Isn’t as Great a Case as Video Game...
Author: Sam Castree, III, Chicago-Kent College of Law, J.D. Class of 2013 (For a more extensive treatment of this and related issues see A Problem Old as Pong: Video Game Cloning and the Proper Bounds...
View ArticleCreative Destruction in Cariou v. Prince
Author: Anthony R. Enriquez, J.D., New York University School of Law 2013. When portrait photographer Patrick Cariou saw that his original photos of Jamaican Rastafarians had been used by renowned...
View Article“Woman in Gold”: Hollywood Explores the Restitution of Nazi-Stolen Art
The Nazi art confiscations and forced sales that occurred during World War II have been described as “the greatest displacement of artwork in human history.”[1] It has been estimated that between the...
View ArticleLooted Cubaism: Premature hopes of restitution thanks to détente in Cuban...
Recent claims of conciliatory Cuban-American relations have dominated the news and the illusions of those with personal or commercial hopes for the island. This new dialogue has led families harmed and...
View ArticleRichard Prince Finds Himself in Another Lawsuit
Appropriation is commonplace in today’s art world. But what happens when the appropriator appropriates too much? Richard Prince has made a name for himself as a well-known appropriation artist....
View ArticleWhat Was 5Pointz and What Does It Mean For the Visual Artists Rights Act?
Jonathan Cohen, better known by his “tag”[1] Meres One[2], is a freelance artist whose work has brought him much success and fame. His clientele include sports teams and banks, and his works have been...
View ArticleNon-Fungible Tokens: Copyright Implications in the Wild West of Blockchain...
On March 11, 2021, a 443-megabyte JPEG image sold for a record-breaking $69.3 million. This sum was not only the highest price paid for a piece of digital artwork ever, but was also the third-highest...
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