The Art History Newsletter

Appropriation and the Law

by Jon Lackman | 17 February 2007 | Conferences, Contemporary

Blogger Joy Garnett covers Friday’s “Reexamining Appropriation: The Copy, the Law, and Beyond”: “One of the most germane questions came at the end from organizing co-chair Virginia Rutledge, who asked Leval if he thought that the importance of context and conceptual underpinnings of works of art would ever finally trump visual, formal (superficial) resemblance in the courts. And his reply was that — to his consternation — most judges tend to be conservative to the point of being reactionary when it comes to fair use.”