Tag: Copyright
This week, George Zimmerman unleashed his latest painting — an ugly, heavy-handed rendering of Angela Corey, the special prosecutor on his trial. Much like his last “work,” which appropriated a stock photo of an American flag, this one liberally lifts from a preexisting image as well: an Associated Press photo of Corey taken by Rick […]
Pro-Folio, by Royal College of Art student Sures Kumar, was good art. Enter any name — your own, perhaps — into its simple web interface, and it generated a slickly-designed artist’s portfolio, fully populated with other people’s artwork, randomly selected from public profiles on the art- and design-sharing site Behance. By so effortlessly birthing fictional artists into […]
Good news for the man born William Leonard Roberts II: Rick Ross the corrections-officer-turned-rapper gets to keep his name, despite legal action from Rick Ross the cocaine kingpin. And appeals court dismissed the lawsuit the convicted drug dealer filed in 2010, which alleged the rapper appropriated his image and likeness, arguing for Rick Ross’s First Amendment […]
It’s impossible to overstate the influence of Johann Sebastian Bach’s The Well-Tempered Clavier on the nearly three centuries of western music that have followed it. It’s the kind of cultural landmark that should be freely available to anyone who’d like to listen, play, and marvel at its beauty, and now, thanks to this Kickstarter campaign, it may […]
Defenders of the old copyright order say it’s all about protecting content creators–if you download an album or movie for free, the logic goes, you’re depriving an artist of the income he or she deserves and disincentivizing them to continue making art. While that’s usually true to some degree, it leaves out something important out; […]
London-based artist Phil Thompson’s ongoing project Copyrights– one that is largely based on the Google Art Project’s interior views of museums, and the hazy, blurred out paintings that accompany these images as a result of complicated copyright issues surrounding some of the works. Some of the paintings in virtual walkthrough of the museums are blurred out because they are not actually […]
Look at the image above, the logo for Everyman Espresso, a coffee shop with locations in SoHo and the East Village. Does it remind you of the state of New York’s iconic “I ♥ NY” mark? Enough for the state to take legal action? That’s exactly what’s happening, as the state’s Department of Economic Development gets its […]
Hollywood studios ask Google to remove links to their content all the time. Say a pirated copy of Taken 2 pops up on the search engine, for example–20th Century Fox can send what’s called a Digital Millenium Copyright Act takedown notice to Google and have any the offending content removed from search. These takedown searches and notices […]
Thanks to the Jogging for being on the front lines of artists responding to that ridiculous Supreme Vs. Married to the Mob lawsuit with Uncool Jokers, 2013 by Michael Bussell. Refresher: Leah McSweeney has been using the parody of the Supreme logo for her “Supreme Bitch” t-shirts for years and now, James Jebbia of Supreme is only now […]
Just days after Richard Prince triumphantly won his copyright lawsuit, just when we supposedly established that “law does not require that a new work of art comment on any of its source material to qualify as fair use” — today, appropriation rights take a step back. A California judge has ruled that Mr. Brainwash was, […]
