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News & Updates on Legal Issues Facing the Art World
The Art Law Blog, published by Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP, focuses on legal issues at the intersection of art and law. It covers topics such as art-backed lending and the use of fine art as collateral in financial transactions, legal challenges related to art authenticity and due diligence in the art market, copyright considerations involving AI-generated art, and international perspectives on intellectual property rights for creative works. The blog also addresses litigation trends involving art forgery, the evolving legal standards for human authorship in AI-created content, and the implications of differing copyright laws across jurisdictions. It serves as a resource on the complex legal landscape affecting collectors, artists, galleries, and financial institutions engaged with art assets.
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Public Art Programs: 1% for the 99% – Part Three
We conclude our series on public art and percent-for-art programs by focusing on a recent case involving the respected American sculptor, Alice Aycock. The artist’s sculpture, Star Sifter, was created in 1998 for the John F. Kennedy Airport, New York…
Public Art Programs: 1% for the 99% – Part Two
As we described in our previous post, percent-for-art programs are successful and popular. However, because there are few common norms in the field or understandings regarding implementation of program initiatives, the importance of thorough negotiations and carefully constructed contracts cannot…
Public Art Programs: 1% for the 99% – Part One
The Art Law Blog introduces the first in a series of three articles on “percent-for-art” programs. The common purpose of percent-for-art ordinances is to invigorate the public cultural environment, and to develop and enhance public interest in the visual arts…
Art Fortresses Hold Taxes at Bay
The prices fetched by famous artworks continue to astound industry-watchers. In spring 2012, Edvard Munch’s The Scream set the record for a work sold at auction—$120 million. Sales of contemporary and modern art have also been setting records. As the…
Tax Bill Lands on Illegal Eagle
An artistic work’s beauty may be in the eye of the beholder, but its valuation for taxation purposes is in the eye of the Internal Revenue Service. Recently, one of Robert Rauschenberg’s works captured attention for an uncommon tax and…
Lend Us Your Ears: Museums Implore Senate
By Kathryn Hines and Manuel Gomez
This year, visitors to the Metropolitan Museum of Art were able to view Rembrandt’s Portrait of the Artist (ca. 1665), on loan from the Kenwood House in North London and in the United States…
Authentication and the Art Market: What Appraisers and Collectors Should Know
The LA Chapter of ASA is proud to host this special event featuring: Debra Burchett-Lere, Acting President and Director of The Sam Francis Foundation and Christine Steiner, Art Attorney at Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP. A number of panels,…
The Studious Studio – Business Practices for Artists
By Christine Steiner
The recent troubles of Knoedler Gallery, now airing in the press and later, presumably, in the courtroom, may shed some light on certain art world concerns – due diligence, gallery sale practices, sophisticated fakes/forgeries, and problems with…
My Fellow Californians – Our Long National Nightmare is Over
By Christine Steiner
In the same era Gerald Ford advised his fellow Americans that “our long national nightmare is over,” as he succeeded Richard Nixon as president, the California Legislation enacted the sloppily-drafted California Resale Royalty Act, Civil Code Section…