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A federal judge in Brooklyn recently dismissed a lawsuit filed by a street artist who painted a well-known mural in Bushwick

The Board affirmed a refusal to register the mark shown immediately below on the ground that it fails to function as a service mark for "Retail store services featuring handmade artisan products...

Pryor Cashman partner William Charron was recently invited to discuss the fascinating world of art litigation as a guest on The Litigation War Room, a podcast hosted by litigation attorney Maxwell Goss.

A hotel was liable for statutory damages, the other copyright owners’ costs of suit including attorneys’ fees, and was permanently enjoined from infringing copyrights to music compositions by publicly performing the music for hotel patrons.

Harnessing the power of social media to market products and services is now commonplace, and can take a number of forms, including paying social media "influencers" to create content promoting products...

The following are summaries of news reports pertaining to art law and art markets, organized by geographic regions for your browsing convenience.

One PRO petitioned a federal district court, asking the court to declare that its consent decree does not require full-work licensing.

As long-time readers of our biweekly series know from our last Thanksgiving's compliance parody, Paul Simon originally planned to become a lawyer and even attended...

After the success of its inaugural exhibition, Womble Bond Dickinson is launching the second exhibition in its ground-breaking Art & Diversity program.

Art has become more than a reflection of its creator's vision and owner's style; it has emerged as an investment and important asset class.

In a significant copyright case, Universal Music Group, Capitol Records, Concord Music Group, and ABKCO Music (collectively, "Plaintiffs") have filed a $500 million lawsuit against Believe S.A. and its U.S.

Jeff Koons the appropriation artist, the auction house and the consigner of the work are being sued by photographer Mitchel Gray for the use of his photograph in an artwork without permission.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit upheld the district court’s grant of summary judgment in favor of defendant-appellee Universal-MCA Music Publishing

Plaintiff Jacob Aaron Leveille is a visual artist who lives in Florida. (You can check out his work on Instagram.) Defendant Ryan Edward Upchurch is a rapper, singer, songwriter and comedian who...

Plaintiff Jacob Aaron Leveille is a visual artist who lives in Florida. (You can check out his work on Instagram.) Defendant Ryan Edward Upchurch is a rapper, singer, songwriter and comedian who, according to his Wikipedia page,

You have to tip your hi-hat to Eddie Lee Richardson, a/k/a Hotwire the Producer, a/k/a the plaintiff in this case. When he was 16 years old, Richardson created "*Hood* Pushin' Weight" ("HPW")...

At its most fundamental, the law of copyright is literally that – a protective limitation on the right to copy the original creative expression of authors and artists.