Intellectual Property

Digital creation by Nikoleta-Georgia Vlachaki By Afroditi Karatagli Anonymity as Condition, Not Absence The Reuters investigation into Banksy’s identity was published on March 13th, and it has been […]

The last few weeks I have witnessed a number of interesting discussions breaking out on social media. A couple of weeks ago a US-based academic admitted using AI in some of his writing, which […]

I’ve been following the CJEU case C-250/25 Like Company v Google hearing with interest (my initial thoughts on the case here). I won’t attempt to cover the entirety of the proceedings, I’ve […]

Picasso, Woman Ironing, 1904, Guggenheim, New York By Lauren Stein and Donyea James On December 16, 2016, the outgoing president Barack Obama signed into law the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery […]

Credit: Diego Rivera, Still Life and Blossoming Almond Trees, California, available at Wikimedia Commons By Walker Schulte Schneider Murals, and the artists who paint them, are pillars of the art […]

  By Alexandra Kharchenko On February 4, 2026, the Center for Art Law hosted an in-person, full-day Art Lawyering Bootcamp focused on copyright law. The bootcamp was led by experienced art law […]

If you have been online recently you may have seen a variation of a story that reads something like this: “The US Supreme Court declares that AI generated works aren’t copyrightable.” I won’t […]

Screenshot from AAA AI Arbitrator Website By Marina Rastorfer Most discourses, no matter the field of interest, tend to have a catchphrase or a keyword that routinely gets applied – […]

Poster for The Spoils (2024), directed by Jamie Kastner By Savannah Weiler Jamie Kastner’s 2024 documentary The Spoils explores the complex negotiations and setbacks Nazi-era restitution claimants […]

By William Yuen Yee Critics describe the art market as the “largest, legal unregulated industry” in the United States.[1] Lawmakers have repeatedly introduced federal legislation to impose […]

Robert Rauschenberg, Susan—Central Park N.Y.C. (II) (1951) By Josie Goettel When an artist passes, their estate is tasked with two seemingly conflicting tasks: to protect an artist’s work by […]

A few months ago we were pondering a few things about the future of media here at Llama Towers. I speculated about a world where you could generate your own Star Wars trilogy based on the Timothy […]

Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) By Alexandra Kharchenko On October 6, 2025, the Flemish Government announced plans to transform the Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA) into a […]

Han van Meegeren, The Supper at Emmaus (1937) By Lauren Stein In 2014, the Swiss Fine Art Expert Institute (FAEI) estimated that up to 50% of all artwork circulating the market were either […]

It’s been a while since we had a proper digital property and virtual gold story here at Llama Towers, I have to admit that it’s been mostly AI for the last few years. But a recent decision in the […]

Text from my editorial in IIC. In courtrooms across the globe, a quiet crisis is brewing. As the number of artificial intelligence copyright litigations increases, judges are being asked to decide […]

Following the recent decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and last year’s Kneschke v LAION, we now have two German courts grappling with the applicability of the text and data mining exceptions to AI […]

We’ve now had two recent decisions in the UK and Germany very close together that have dealt with AI and copyright. I won’t go in detail again on the rulings, you can read the previous posts […]