I agree with your 2 examples (Greenfiels and Koons), where the copyright infringments are clearly identified (like in french law) but then what about cubist, futurist and dadaist collages? What about Pop Art works representing consumption society icons (Coca cola bottle, etc..)? They were infringing copyrightable works! For instance, Warhol's works : his famous Campbell Soup collages or his serigraphies of copyrightable photographs (Mao, Marylin Monroe, electric Chair, Elvis....)? How come nobody sued him? Or maybe he asked permissions?
I am not sure Marcel Duchamp asked permission to use a urinal or a flat iron as "ready-made"? Did the manufacturers of these objects sued Duchamps? They should have because the urinal is now very expensive (last year, an artist tried to destroy it in Paris and he was sued to pay 80.000$ just to repair it!).
FR LEVOL
Doctorant en PLA
Paris XII - France
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Received on Fri Apr 02 1999 - 21:56:44 GMT
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