
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…
On January 29, 2025, the U.S. Copyright Office released Part Two of its planned reports on the intersection between copyright and generative Artificial Intelligence (“AI”). Titled “Part 2: Copyrightability,” the Report addresses a hot issue—the extent to which AI-generated outputs…
On December 16, 2024, Shira Perlmutter, head of the U.S. Copyright Office,[1] provided the relevant subcommittees of the Senate and House Judiciary Committees with an update on the Copyright Office’s ambitious investigation into the intersection of generative Artificial Intelligence…
On August 16, 2024, the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit affirmed Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s legal victory in the copyright lawsuit fellow artist Joe Morford brought against him alleging that Comedian (2019), Cattelan’s famous duct-taped banana…
On May 3, 2024, U.S. District Judge Stephen H. Locher of the Southern District of Iowa granted artist Mary Miss’s motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent the demolition or removal of her outdoor environmental artwork entitled Greenwood Pond: Double…
For the fifth year running, the Chambers High Net Worth guide, which focuses on the private wealth sector, recognized HHR as one of the nation’s leading law firms for Art and Cultural Property Law.
Chambers ranked HHR’s Art Law practice…
On July 31, 2024, the U.S. Copyright Office issued the first of several planned reports on the intersection between copyright and generative Artificial Intelligence (“AI”), following a lengthy period of public comment, during which it received more than 10,300 comments,…