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Perelman’s Art Damage Case Continued to Burn Through Court Last Week

By Renée Vara June 18, 2025 marked yet another trial day in the closely watched case of Ronald Perelman versus a group of reinsurers (AGP...
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Case Review Update: Thaler v. Perlmutter (2025)

By Shelby Jorgensen A Recent Entrance to Paradise is enjoying more than 15 minutes of attention. The Center has previously covered the District Court decision...
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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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Case Review: Ravensburger v. Italian Ministry of Culture (LG Stuttgart, Judgment of 14.03.2024 – 17 O 247/22)

By Lydia Filipsson The Vitruvian Man, created by Leonardo da Vinci around 1490, is a renowned drawing that illustrates the ideal human proportions, depicting a...
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Case Review: Getty v. Italy (2024)

By Livia Solaro While cultural heritage disputes have often proved heralds of international tensions, very few cases have caused quite the stir as the one...
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Case Review: Farmer-Paellmann v Smithsonian Inst.

By Beverly Osazuwa The ongoing campaign for the return of the Benin Bronzes has been one of the most recognized cases for the restitution of...
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Case Review: Kerson v. Vermont Law School, Inc.

By Joseph Scapellato "I don't feel like I'm responsible for people that have reactions to it . . ." ~ Artist Samuel Kerson, speaking to...
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Matters of Baldessari: Estate of the Artist Finds Itself on Both Sides of Litigation

By Olivia Zinzi The estate of John Baldessari, a 20th century pop conceptual artist, is currently in the midst of two multi-million dollar lawsuits.[1] Baldessari,...
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Case Review: Hermès International v. Rothschild

By Harper Johnson A legal dispute between the Los Angeles based artist known as Mason Rothschild, the creator of the MetaBirkin NFTs, and Hermès, the...
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“Shhhhhh”: Kat Von D and Tattoo Fan Art – Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg (2021)

By Alexandra Materia Tattoos place another wrinkle into the realm of copyright law and their interaction with the fair use defense. Famously in Andy Warhol...
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Case Review: RF and Bulatov v. Tsvetkova and other charges against an artist

By Irina Strelkovskaya Background Yulia Tsvetkova is an artist and LGBTQ+ and women’s rights activist from Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in the Far East of the Russian Federation....
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Appropriation or Art? Court Orders Richard Prince to Pay Damages in Highly Anticipated Copyright Lawsuit

By Olivia Zinzi On January 25, 2024, Judge Sidney H. Stein in the Southern District of New York issued a final judgment in Graham v....
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