Copyright Law

A Second Round of Deaccessioning at the Brooklyn Museum

By Intellectual Property Law, Esq.

This round includes works by Monet, Miró, and Degas. Previous round here.

These sales are completely ethical -- the AAMD, which as we all know has the power to say whether or not something is ethical, has decreed it so. Some people are unhappy anyway.

Former Detroit Free Press arts reporter Mark Stryker tweets: "in future, critics will point to hypocrisy of museums selling whenever they want but crying 'public trust' only when convenient. The critics will be right."

Or, put another way: Tell me again about the public trust.

Full post as published by The Art Law Blog on October 16, 2020 (boomark / email).