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  Cariou v. Prince: Infringement by Appropriation Art

  Posted on 一月 19, 2012 by adminsampsung in Copyright

  by Michael M. Ratoza Photos were taken. Photos were appropriated into new art forms. Copyright infringement claims resulted. Patrick Cariou’s photographs of Jamaican Rastafarians were published by PowerHouse Press in 2000. The book contains photographic portraits of Rastafarian individuals plus images of Jamaican landscape. Following publication, the well-known “appropriation artist” Richard Prince commenced appropriating many of these photographs [...]

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• Warhol Foundation Urges Protection for Appropriation Art as Experts Debate

  Posted on 十二月 25, 2011 by adminsampsung in Copyright

  by Irina Tarsis @ Cardozo Art Law Earlier this month, the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts submitted a brief urging New York federal appeals court to reverse the holding in Cariou v. Prince, 784 F.Supp.2d 337 (2011) (ruling that thirty some paintings by Richard Prince have infringed copyrights in photographs owned by Patrick Cariou). The [...]

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• Does Copyright Protect Ideas?

  Posted on 十二月 19, 2011 by adminsampsung in Copyright

  by Shireen Smith Of all the IP laws, copyright is the most wide-ranging in scope and application.     However, there is confusion as to whether copyright protects underlying ideas.  Does it protect ideas incorporated in a piece of writing, or a film or CD? Many people assume copyright does prevent the copying of ideas.  However, copyright in written [...]

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