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Visual Arts and the Law Panel April 9 - Hofstra Law and NYSBA at the Cornell Club
Parthenon Selene Horse (source: Wikipedia)
ART LAW CANVAS(S):

AN EXAMINATION OF LEGAL ISSUES AFFECTING THE VISUAL ARTS COMMUNITY

FOR ARTISTS AND THE LAWYERS WHO HELP PROTECT THEM

When: Friday, April 9, 2010

Time: 12:00 p.m. – 5:00 p.m....
SDNY Federal Bar Association Chapter Meeting at Smith Gambrell & Russell LLP
The Federal Bar Association

invites you to a meeting of the
Southern District of New York Chapter
Date: March 23, 2010Time: 5:30 p.m.
Place: SMITH GAMBRELL & RUSSELL, LLP
250 Park Avenue
19th Floor
New York, NY 10177
New members and all interested perso...
4th Circuit: Fine Art Paintings from Photographs and Actual Damages For Copyright Infringement
In Hofmann v. O'Brien, 2010 WL 675006 (4th Cir. Feb 26, 2010), the Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit considered the following fact scenario following a jury trial:

1. Plaintiff Douglas Hofmann is a fine art painter who works from photographs. Hofman staged numerous photographs invo...
Pleading Copyright Claims: Israeli Copyrights, the Berne Convention and Protecting Cracked Software
In Waves Audio Ltd v. Uptime Inc., 2010 WL 308301 (S.D.N.Y. Jan 22, 2010), Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald dealt with an unusual case: a copyright infringement action that had already spent two years in litigation in New York State Supreme Court. Plaintiff Waves distributes an audio software and allege...
Federal Bar Association - SDNY Chapter Swearing In Of New Officers By Chief Judge Loretta A. Preska
On March 1, 2010 Amy Gell, my fellow Vice President for the Second Circuit of the Federal Bar Association, and I organized a ceremony for the swearing-in of new officers of the Federal Bar Association's SDNY Chapter. The Hon. Loretta A. Preska, Chief U.S. District Judge of the Southern District of N...
Federal Bar Association Organizational Meeting for Westchester Chapter at Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP
The Federal Bar Association
invites you to an organizational meeting of our
Westchester Chapter
Date: April 6, 2010
Time: 5:00 p.m.Place: BOIES, SCHILLER & FLEXNER LLP333 Main StreetArmonk, NY 10504
All interested persons welcome, light refreshments to be served. The
Fe...
NYCLA Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute, November 2009 - Now Available on DVD
If you missed the November New York County Lawyers' Association Art Litigation and Dispute Resolution Institute program, you can now get it on DVD, our speakers and topics were truly extraordinary. Ordering information at NYCLA.org - here.

Program Co-chairs:

Hon. Stephe...
Following the Trail to "Dead City" at Gratz College in Philadelphia - April 16
Egon Schiele's Dead City III - Now at the Leopold Museum

On April 16, Gratz College in Philadelphia is hosting a continuing legal education program called "Following the Trail to "Dead City" that will discuss the Egon Schiele oil Dead City III stolen from Fritz Grunbaum while he was...
Lovely Strudel from Demel: Austria's Continuing Extortion of Jews Dispossed of Artworks
Austrian Cultural Forum (thin gray building third from the left) image here.
On March 4-5 the Austrian Cultural Forum in New York City held a forum on "Art Restitution in Austria". I previously wrote about stolen Schieles in Austria's Leopold and Albertina collections here. You can lis...
Birth of the Virtual Gallery? ArtWeLove.com at Pulse Art Fair
Founder by Quentin Curry

Ran into Laurence Lafforgue, founder of Artwelove.com at their booth at the Pulse Art Fair on the occasion of their launch of Shop.artwelove.com. Laurence works with the rising stars of the art world to make their works available to fans through affordable, limi...
Image via Wikipedia
In Reed Elsevier v. Muchnick, 08-103 (March 2, 2010) the U.S. Supreme Court, in a decision by Justice Clarence Thomas, held that a failure to register a copyright under Section 411 of the Copyright Act did not deprive a District Court of jurisdiction to approve a settlement ...
Sculpture, History, Copyright Infringement and Fair Use of the Korean War Veteran's Memorial
In Gaylord v. United States, February 25, 2010, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit upheld a sculptor's right to sue the U.S. government for copyright infringement for unauthorized use of the sculptures on a postage stamp. The Federal Circuit reversed a decision of the Federal C...
Audio Recording and Powerpoint of Nazi Art Looting Presentation at Yad Vashem
Egon Schiele's Self-Seers - Stolen from Fritz Grunbaum and Still Missing
Last week I gave a lecture at Yad Vashem International Institute for Holocaust Research in Jerusalem. I dealt with the problems faced by attorneys who need to prove that the Holocaust happened and to prove that transacti...
Austria and Fritz Grunbaum's Stolen Schieles at the Albertina Museum
In 1955, Austria signed a treaty with the United States promising to give back all of the property it stole from Jews during the period of Nazi "occupation" of Austria. Ever since, Austria has treated this obligation largely as a joke, thumbing its nose at Jews who attempted to get their property ...
Reviews for Copyright Litigation Handbook on Amazon
Thanks for the wonderful reviews of Copyright Litigation Handbook on Amazon here.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5.0 out of 5 stars A great resource, October 8, 2009

By Joseph Petersen - See all my reviews
Raymond J. Dowd, an experienced trial lawyer and p...
Sixth Circuit - Confidentiality Agreements For the Development of Copyrighted Works - CAD and 3D
Dodge AvengerChrysler Sebring
In Multimatic Inc. v. Faurecia Interior Systems USA, 2009 WL 4927957 (6th Cir. Dec. 22, 2009), the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals considered the question of whether a confidentiality agreement entered into by two parties protected intellectual property (trade secre...
Collection of Lawsuits Against Bloggers on Citizen Media Law Project
Citizen Media Law Project maintains a summary of lawsuits against bloggers here with helpful links to case documents, an excellent resource.

The Citizen Media Law Project (CMLP) is jointly affiliated with Harvard Law School’s Berkman Center for Internet & Society, a research center foun...
Fifth Circuit on Corporate Logos, First Amendment, VARA and Copyright, Utilitarian Objects and Ralph the Cactus Planter
http://www.austinchronicle.com/In Kleinman v. City of San Marcos, --- F.3d ----, 2010 WL 447894 (5th Cir. 2010 Feb. 10, 2010), the Fifth Circuit decided the question of whether Ralph the Cactus Planter, a junked Oldsmobile '88 filled with dirt, planted with cactus and covered with paintings by artis...
Oral Termination of License Agreements, Jury Instructions and the Copyright Act
Caballo Viejo - image courtesy Wikipedia - the song by Simon Diaz that inspired the Gypsy Kings' Bamboleo featured in a recent decision by the First Circuit Court of Appeals Latin American Music Company v. ASCAP, 2010 WL 324526 (1st Cir. 2010).

At issue: we ...
Egon Schiele's Dead City: Current Issues In Nazi Art Looting and Recovery
Egon Schiele's Dead City III, from the collection of Fritz Grunbaum when he was arrested by the Gestapo in 1938 and then died penniless in Dachau, currently at the Leopold Museum in Vienna, Austria

NYSBA Sections: Entertainment, Arts & Sports and Law (EASL) Section Events
Visual Artists Rights Act: Artist Moral Rights in Unfinished Sculptural Works
In Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art Foundation v. Buchel, --- F.3d ---, 2010 WL 297834 (1st. Cir. January 27, 2010), the First Circuit decided a case of first impression that decided a number of complex issues related to the Visual Artists Rights Act ("VARA").

I first wrote about ...
Authentication, Artist Foundations and Catalogue Raisonnes
In Thome v. The Alexander & Louisa Calder Foundation, 890 N.Y.S.2d 16 (First Dept. 2009), the Appellate Division, First Department upheld a decision of Justice Charles E. Ramos dismissing a claim against the Calder Foundation.

The plaintiff owned a work it believed was created by...
Invitation: February 11 Lecture at Cincinnati Museum Center on Recovery of Nazi Looted Art
Cincinnati Museum Center at Union Terminal

invites you to an evening with

Raymond J. Dowd, Esquire
Partner, Dunnington, Bartholow & Miller LLP
Thursday, February 11, 2010
6 p.m.

Heavy appetizers and cash bar

7:30 p.m.

Insigh...
Unregistered Foreign Copyrights in US Courts: No Statutory Damages and Attorneys Fees
In Elsevier B.V. v. United Healthgroup, Inc., S.D.N.Y. January 14,2010, Judge William Pauley considered a plaintiff's claim that a provision of the Copyright Act requiring copyrights to be registered prior to an infringement violated the Berne Convention and thus was "preempted" by the U.S. Co...
Looting and Exploitation in Nazi-Occupied Europe by Dr. Jonathan Petropoulos
Dr. Jonathan Petropoulos delivered a lecture on Nazi art looting in Vienna last fall, focusing on the case studies of art dealers Curt Valentin and Otto Kallir, both of whom moved large quantities of artworks from Nazi Germany into the United States during and after World War II. A link to D...

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