On June 1, 2026, Robert Wyland, a Florida-based environmental artist, filed suit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas against building owner Slate Asset Management, 3PZ Property Company, LLC and the Fédération Internationale de Football
On January 2, 2026, the Ninth Circuit, in a per curium opinion, affirmed the jury’s verdict in Sedlik v. Von Drachenberg, a copyright infringement case involving a tattoo by celebrity artist Kat Von D and a photograph of Miles Davis.
Bipartisan members of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Senators Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) and Peter Welch (D-VT), have introduced the “Visual Artists Copyright Reform Act of 2025” (“VACRA”), a bill aimed at streamlining the copyright registration process for visual artists.[1]
For the sixth consecutive year, the Chambers High Net Worth guide, which focuses on the private wealth sector, recognized Hughes Hubbard as one of the nation’s leading law firms for Art and Cultural Property Law.
Chambers ranked the firm’s Art
On May 9, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released a “pre-publication” version of Part Three of its planned reports on the intersection between copyright and generative artificial intelligence (“AI”). Titled “Part 3: Generative AI Training,” the Report addresses whether AI
On June 19, 2025, the New York State Fashion Workers Act (the “Act”) goes into effect, triggering numerous changes to the current employment structure for models in New York. The Act,[1] which Governor Hochul signed into law in December
Previously on this blog, we reported on Miley Cyrus’s motion to dismiss a copyright infringement action against her and several co-defendants over the song “Flowers.”[1] On March 18, 2025, the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California
On February 11, 2025, a U.S. District Court in Delaware issued a decision of first impression finding that a technology startup’s use of copyrighted materials to train its artificial intelligence platform infringed the copyright holder’s rights and did not constitute
In a recent mixed decision that some news outlets reported as a win for art and antique dealers and others described as a win for conservationists, the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit held that the federal
We recently reported on a preliminary injunction issued in Mary Miss v. Edmundson Art Foundation, Inc., temporarily barring the Des Moines Art Center from destroying Greenwood Pond: Double Site, artist Mary Miss’s well-known outdoor environmental art installation that is in
