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"When questioned specifically on the Mackie case, she commented that Mackie was simply protecting his copyrighted work from infringement"

By Intellectual Property Law, Esq.

The Capitol Hill Seattle Blog has more on the public art copyright infringement lawsuit I mentioned earlier this week:

"We looked into the issue of whether it is common for public art administrators to allow commissioned artists to retain the copyright. Apparently, this varies by agency and by contract (so it would be possible for Seattle to negotiate to retain the right - they just do not). We questioned Ruri Yamplosky, the City of Seattle's Public Art Director about the reasons for having the artist retain the copyright. She noted that this is a generally accepted practice. When questioned specifically on the Mackie case, she commented that Mackie was simply protecting his copyrighted work from infringement."

As I mentioned in the earlier post, in my experience too the artist always retains the copyright.

Full post as published by The Art Law Blog on February 10, 2010 (boomark / email).