Category: Art Law News Links
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Art + Law in the News Restitution made easier? Or with exceptions? A new UK rule taking effect on 27 November 2025 makes it easier for charitable, non-national museums to return cultural objects for moral reasons. These changes, set out in sections 15 and 16 of the Charities Act 2022, simplify the process for “ex…
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Art + Law in the News Heirs File Suit Over Allegedly Nazi-Looted Olive Picking by Vincent van Gogh The heirs of Hedwig Stern and Frederick Stern have sued Metropolitan Museum of Art (the Met) and the Basil & Elise Goulandris Foundation in Athens, alleging that the 1889 van Gogh painting Olive Picking was looted by…
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The Hollywood Reporter’s entertainment law blog “ESQ.” fills us in: the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday protected the National Football League and the Baltimore Ravens from an artist who had once convinced a judge that the team had infringed upon his design to create the Ravens’ old logo.
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An odd love triangle among three glamours legends: Ryan O’Neal, Farrah Fawcett, and Andy Warhol. The issue: who owns a $12 million pop art portrait when the relationship is on-and-off, and the University of Texas claims it was gifted to them in a trust? O’Neal and the school are duking it out in a jury…
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Otto Dix painting, sourced from WikiMedia The trove of Nazi-era art of previously unregistered works by Marc Chagall, Otto Dix, Max Liberman and Henri Matisse found in an apartment last March has presented some interesting legal questions. There are a few layers of shady, potentially criminal, activity at work here, the initial Nazi-looting and then…
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Image courtesy of John Roleke at About.com The street art collective 5Pointz won a stay of execution (restraining order) freezing the building owner’s demolition preparations. It’s all over the news: here, here, here, etc. Lawyers for the collective centered their arguments on a clause from the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA), which allows certain…
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Robin Thicke and Co. are seeking a declaratory judgment that the summer hit “Blurred Lines” (or is it #blurredlines?) does not infringe upon the Marvin Gaye song, “Gotta Give it Up.” Decide for yourself here and here. Talk about “blurred lines”…. GET IT? The Attorney General of the SDNY and New York office of the FBI charged James Meyer, Jasper…
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Image courtesy of The Superslice. According to a source “close to the decision-making process,” there is a good chance that the Los Angeles Planning and Land Use Management Committee will reverse the ban on the creation of murals on private property when they vote next week. Check out a great video short on The Superslice about efforts to…
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