Copyright Law

Linkage (falling hopelessly behind edition)

By Intellectual Property Law, Esq.

• FBI arrests three, including a Seattle art dealer, in connection with long-running art theft ring.
• "A glaring problem in our current copyright registration system."
• Nonprofit doomsday approaches.
• What does Elena Kagan have against art?
• A tax deduction for returning Nazi-looted art?
• The art pawnbroker.
• Book cover not artwork for right of publicity purposes.
• Another fake show.
• Martha Lufkin on the annual US conference on Legal Issues in Museum Administration.
• More on Edelman-Emigrant suit.
• I hope to have more to say about this one later, but for now: "A Swiss woman is suing Christie's auction house in New York for failing to 'exercise due care' almost 12 years ago when it sold a drawing she consigned for less than $22,000 ? a drawing that several experts now attribute to Leonardo da Vinci, and that they estimate could be worth more than $150-million."

Full post as published by The Art Law Blog on May 14, 2010 (boomark / email).