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New York Gallery Closures and Legal Impacts for Artists

By Carla Frade Home to more than 760 galleries with at least one paid employee, as well as the top-tier and highest-end galleries in the...
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Remodelling the UK’s ‘Gold-Plated Copyright Regime’ and its Impacts on Creative Industries and AI Training

By Aminah Asif On the 17th of December, 2024, the UK government published an open consultation paper on ‘Copyright and Artificial Intelligence (“AI”)’ which evaluated...
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Competition Law: The Last Pioneer for Eradicating Institutional Dominance?

By Renée Ramona Robinson If the adage “apart from drugs, art is the biggest unregulated market in the world” is true, then what better way...
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Intellectual Property Protections and the Art Market in Japan

By Anjali Krishna As visitors flock to Japan in the throng of post-pandemic travelers, they travel not only in search of a cultural education: Tourists...
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Introducing: ART IN BRIEF (aka our podcast)!

By Center for Art Law Editorial Team Warfare of Art and Law (with artist and attorney Stephanie Drawdy), The Art Law Podcast (with  Steve Schindler...
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“Who Gave the Order?”: Art Censorship and Restorative Justice in Colombia

By Maria Chica Jimenez Military officers stand among neon red skulls and digits: the number of civilian assassinations that occurred under their command. Quien Dio...
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Stolen Art Databases, Bridging Gaps, and Balancing the Need for Private Policing

By Eleanor Gartstein The older a given artwork or artifact is, the more likely it has a long and complicated ownership history. Records of this...
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A Revised NAGPRA: Evaluating Progress Towards Repatriating Native American Ancestral Remains and Belongings in the Wake of Revised Federal Regulations

By Emily Yan One year ago, on January 12, 2024, the Department of the Interior (DOI) implemented historic updates to the Native American Graves Protection...
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Keeping Up with the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act: Proposed Cultural Property Import Restrictions from Lebanon and Mongolia and an Extension for El Salvador

By Emily G. Finch On November 14, 1970, member states signed the UNESCO 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting and Preventing the Illicit Import,...
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WYWH: “ABCs of Art Law: E is for Ethics”

By Emily Yan On November 20, 2024, the Center for Art Law hosted an online CLE program about the ethical principles guiding art market, with...
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The Clash: Staying Power of Small Museums and Cultural Institutions

By Max Beckwith Why are small museums closing or changing their business models across America? How are small museums like, The Rubin in New York,...
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Can a Duct-taped Banana be a Copyrightable Work of Art?

By Alanna Pitre Emerging into public consciousness in the late 1960s, conceptual art was developed by artists as a means of anti-institutional expression.[1] Rather than...
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