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Witness: The Testimony of a Beheaded Sculpture

By Emily Ham The Story: Witness at the University of Houston About the Work Standing at eighteen feet tall, Witness (2024) by Shahzia Sikander is...
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Select Resources to Help Artists Navigate the Legal Landscape

By Alexa Donovan “No matter your educational journey, there are a couple of things that artists just don’t learn about the profession… Chief among these...
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Spotlight: Columbia’s Kernochan Center for Law, Media and The Arts reveals new Visual Art Infringement Database

By Ava Mandele The legal concepts in copyright cases can be complicated to understand. Lawyers, students and academics alike can struggle to come up with...
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Framing the Future? Disney and Universal Challenge Midjourney over AI-Generated Imagery

By Lulu Yang Earlier this month, Disney and Universal filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California against Midjourney,...
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Case Review: Hayden v. Koons (2025)

By Emily Ko In Jeff Koons’s Made in Heaven series, the artist and his first wife, Ilona Staller, better known by her stage name Cicciolina,...
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Custodians of Controversy: The Legal and Ethical Battle Within the Hilma af Klint Foundation

By Julia Beeson The legacy of Hilma af Klint, a visionary Swedish artist and mother of western abstractionism, has become the center of a commercial,...
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Repatriation in Context: The Case for Cooperation

By John Freeman Cultural heritage is contentious.[1] Recent litigation between the Getty Museum and Italy is a testament to the polarized nature of these disputes,...
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Interview with Anna B. Rubin, Director, Holocaust Claims Processing Office (NYS)

MEET ANNA RUBIN Anna B. Rubin started her career at the Holocaust Claims Processing Office (HCPO) in 2001 as a Holocaust Claims Specialist, later advancing...
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Cultural Property Advisory Committee (1983-2025): Its History, Implementation, Separation of Powers Considerations, and Proposed Amendments

By Devin Dowling Since the Center’s latest edition of Keeping up with the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act, the Cultural Property Advisory Committee’s (“CPAC”...
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Recent Developments in AI, Art & Copyright: Copyright Office Report & New Registrations

By Atreya Mathur In January 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released Part 2 of its report, Copyright and Artificial Intelligence: Copyrightability (“the 2025 Report”) providing...
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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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