The Art Law Blog

JUNE 19, 2021

NYT: Why Do People Want Jeff Bezos to Buy and Eat the Mona Lisa? Includes the following: "'You might get indigestion, but there is nothing stopping you under U.S. law from eating the Mona Lisa if you own it,' said Amy Adler , an art law expert and professor at the New York University School of Law. 'We only protect works for the life of the artist, with a few minor exceptions, but that’s basically the rule under the Visual Artists Rights Act.

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Dear Rich IP Blog

JUNE 19, 2021

Speaking of the public domain, the Public Domain Review has an informative essay (“ The Mark of the Beast ”) about the first anti-vaxxers Dear Rich: I wish to reproduce photographs from a website. I want to use them in a book I've written. It is almost certain that any pre-existing copyright on these photos, all taken before 1963, has lapsed. The site itself is being deliberately obtuse about answering questions.

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TraskBritt Intellectual Property

JUNE 19, 2021

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit affirmed the invalidation of Yu et al.’s patent on a motion to dismiss in Yanbin Yu v. Apple Inc., No. 2020-1760, 2021 U.S. App. LEXIS 17434 (Fed. Cir. June 11, 2021). U.S. Patent No. 6,611,289 claims digital cameras having multiple image sensors and software for combining the images from those sensors to produce higher quality pictures.

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U.S. Department of Commerce

JUNE 19, 2021

Juneteenth: My Story and Black America’s Ongoing Pursuit toward Progress. June 19, 2021. ASowah@doc.gov. Sat, 06/19/2021 - 14:22. Post by. Don Graves. As we reflect on Juneteenth and celebrate the anniversary of the final emancipation of the last slaves in this country some two years after the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, I am reminded that though the physical chains of slavery were broken, the invisible chains of systemic racism have continued to hinder Black Americans' progress to

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Speaker: Blackberry, OSS Consultants, & Revenera

Software is complex, which makes threats to the software supply chain more real every day. 64% of organizations have been impacted by a software supply chain attack and 60% of data breaches are due to unpatched software vulnerabilities. In the U.S. alone, cyber losses totaled $10.3 billion in 2022. All of these stats beg the question, “Do you know what’s in your software?

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