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The press has reported on an investigation by the New York County District Attorney's Office into whether New York-based art galleries and collectors are properly collecting and paying sales tax on art purchases.

On November 10, 2015, Christie's will sell Louise Bourgeois' Spider (1997) at the auction house's Post-War and Contemporary Sale to be held in New York City.

On November 10, 2015, Christie's will sell Louise Bourgeois' Spider (1997) at the auction house's Post-War and Contemporary Sale to be held in New York City.

According to recent reports, NFT Marketplace OpenSea announced that NFT creators have surpassed $1 billion in royalty payments on its platform.

The Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice this month announced that it has opened a review of the 73-year-old ASCAP and BMI Consent Decrees.

According to press reports, Leonardo da Vinci's "Salvator Mundi" became the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction, going for $450.3 million last month.

In a case of first impression, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit joined the Sixth and Ninth Circuits in finding that a reconstruction is not a "copy" for purposes of a copyright application deposit.

A new legal brawl between a musician and a painter raises an interesting question under the Copyright Act: what are the legal obligations of one who destroys another's art in order to create something that is arguably a new work?

Pryor Cashman Partners Ilene Farkas, Brad D. Rose, James Sammataro, Frank Scibilia, Benjamin Semel, and Donald Zakarin were all recognized in Billboard's 2025 list of "Top Music Lawyers."

On August 12, 2014, a trio of street artists filed a lawsuit in federal court against film director (and Monty Python actor) Terry Gilliam for allegedly plagiarizing their mural in his latest movie, The Zero Theorem.

Richard Prince, the (in)famous appropriation artist—and not an infrequent subject of this blog—is once again in the news.

On December 16, 2015, the Copyright Royalty Board released its much-anticipated ruling, increasing the royalty amount that Pandora and other digital streaming services must pay to stream music in 2016.

In Persion Pharmaceuticals LLC v. Alvogen Malta Operations Ltd., No. 18-2361 (Fed. Cir. Dec. 27, 2019), the Federal Circuit affirmed a district court's decision that Persion Pharmaceutical's

Pryor Cashman Partner Dyan Finguerra-DuCharme, co-chair of the Trademark Practice and Fashion Group, spoke with Law360 about a Federal Circuit decision in Bertini v. Apple Inc. that limits Apple's trademark rights for "Apple Music."

Richard Prince continues to push the boundaries of copyright law, if not the art world.

Law360 published an article outlining the Ninth Circuit's rejection of the claim Led Zeppelin stole the introduction to "Stairway to Heaven" from a little-known 1967 instrumental ballad.

Earlier this month, the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld the Copyright Royalty Board's music streaming rates for 2016-2020.