Author
William Landes, Anthony Hirschel
Description
This presentation discusses recent legal cases of visual artists working with in-copyright material without authorisation from the rightsholder.
Date
2011 May 10
Abstract
The abstract provided by the author(s) of this work is as follows:
Presented by William Landes, Clifton R. Musser Professor Emeritus of Law and Economics at the University of Chicago, and Anthony Hirschel, Dana Feitler Director at the Smart Museum of Art The talk will discuss recent legal cases involving visual artists (including Jeff Koons, Richard Prince and Shepard Fairey) who incorporate copyrighted materials (often photographs) into their works without authorization from the copyright owner. Typically, the defendant in these cases claims his borrowing is a fair use and, therefore, does not violate copyright law. Courts, however, have been unsympathetic to the artist's position. Landes and Hirschel will discuss the "economic" arguments for fair use and how the law employs economic considerations to distinguish between permissible and impermissible borrowing of copyrighted material in the case of appropriation art.
Publisher
Cultural Policy Center
Institution
University of Chicago
Jurisdiction
United States
Language
ENG
Size
01:09:56
Copyright Information
In Copyright
Rights and Reuse
Standard YouTube License
Cortex Citation:
William Landes and Anthony Hirschel, “Copyright and Appropriation Art: Recent Legal Controversies,” Copyright Cortex, accessed October 18, 2026, https://copyright-cortex.org/tools-resources/copyright-appropriation-art-recent-legal-controversies.
William Landes and Anthony Hirschel, “Copyright and Appropriation Art: Recent Legal Controversies,” Copyright Cortex, accessed October 18, 2026, https://copyright-cortex.org/tools-resources/copyright-appropriation-art-recent-legal-controversies.