Culture & Entertainment
Of Art and Tax: The EU Commission on Customs Code Redefines Art for Tax Purposes
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When you look at a Flavin creation, do you see a “light installation” or light fixtures and fluorescent bulbs? Dan Flavin is a famous American minimalist artist and pioneer of using fluorescent light fixtures to create sculpture. In 2006, contemporary

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Culture & Entertainment
Streaming Music Program May Help Halt Illegal Downloading
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A stunning blow to music piracy in the U.S. may lie in a Swedish program called Spotify, which gives consumers free, legal streaming access to nearly any song they wish.
Music piracy, whether viewed as a problem or a positive, has

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Uncategorized
Antitrust Litigation Against Andy Warhol Foundation Ends With a Whisper
December 7, 2010 # # # (0)

“Double Denied” is not a story of a prospective student failing to get admission to a prestigious law school: it is an art market nickname describing a cautionary tale about the legacy of Andy Warhol, the most controversial, influential, and

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Community, The News
Art Law: Museums Make Reclaiming Holocaust Art Difficult
November 1, 2010 # # # (1)

Despite international efforts to recover displaced art during World War II, museums in the U.S. still fight assertions of ownerships from Holocaust victims and their heirs. The argument that museums make is that claimants waited too long to bring their

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Community, The News
Non-Profit Gets Creative in Tackling Art Law Issues
October 5, 2010 # # (1)

You would be surprised by the breadth of legal issues that lurk beneath the surface of high-profile artistic projects, including the post-9/11 Tribute in Light memorial as well as this summer’s Key to the City program.
Creative Time, a New York

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Legal Review
Free Wally: Court Chimes in on the Future of Art Law
August 31, 2010 # # (1)

What does the recent $19 million settlement of the long-standing U.S. v. Portrait of Wally (Wally) mean to the generation of students who took on law school loans with the aspiration of practicing art law? Does it spell the end

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Community
IP Panel Presents: Future of Digital Music
March 3, 2010 # # # # (1)

The way we think about how we get music will change drastically in the near future. This was the takeaway from a panel discussion on February 24th entitled “Google, Technology and the Future of the Music Industry.” Presented by both

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