As digital technology and the online environment transform the distribution and use of intellectual property, our Copyright & Trademark group is on the front lines in protecting and enforcing our clients’ most important creative assets. Our trial-tested team represents a wide range of clients, from entrepreneurs to major corporations, from playwrights to media giants, and from individual songwriters to the country’s largest performing rights organizations.
Intellectual Property Litigation: Appropriation art poses challenges for copyright law
December 15, 2011
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Litigation partner Lew Clayton's intellectual property litigation
column published in the December 12, 2011 issue of The National
Law Journal discusses copyright law principles applicable to
appropriation art ‑ works that place pre-existing photographs,
images or objects created by others in new contexts. The article
focuses on Cariou v. Prince, now on appeal to the
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and another recent
caselaw. Litigation associate Rachale Miller assisted in preparing
the article.