by Administrator | Jan 20, 2022 | Cultural Heritage
On January 7th, a lawyer for the Attorney General’s Office of the Southern District of New York and a representative from Homeland Security filed a forfeiture action, seeking the seizure of 35 antiquities of Cambodian and Southeast Asian origin from billionaire...
by Administrator | Jan 6, 2022 | Public Domain
On January 1, over 400,00 sound recordings made prior to 1923 entered the public domain and are no longer protected by copyright. This includes many of the greatest recordings of the early jazz age. You can read more about these works as well as listen to some of the...
by Administrator | Dec 16, 2021 | Legal Issues for Musicians
As if it weren’t already hard enough for musicians to get paid for their work through legitimate licensing agreements, along comes this dynamic duo. Two men have been indicted by the Department of Justice in Arizona for fraudulently collecting over $20 million in...
by Administrator | Dec 9, 2021 | Visual Artist's Rights Act (VARA)
It’s not often that VARA cases come along. This one stems from an attempt by the Vermont School of Law to cover up a mural created by artist Samuel Kerson in 1993. The mural consists of two panels and is titled, The Underground Railroad and...
by Administrator | Dec 2, 2021 | The Art Market
The release and investigation of the Pandora papers by the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists (ICIJ) exposed how the world’s wealthiest individuals hid their money from taxation using offshore entities. These papers also included...
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