Intellectual Property

Seymour Fogel, Wealth of the Nation, 1942 (Photograph by Carol M. Highsmith, 2011) By Sam Brady-Myerov As United States of America celebrate the 250th anniversary and President Trump continues his […]

The Reflecting Pool with its gray basin in 2006. (Image: Hu Totya, Sept. 18, 2026, via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0) By Cara Ianuale Since the start of the President’s second term, the Trump […]

Back in 2013, Google developed a controversial piece of gear that has long lived in infamy, Google Glass. This was an interesting proto-AR wearable device that contained a camera, earphones, a […]

Gilbert Stuart, George Washington (The Athenaeum Portrait) (painting 1796) with a dollar bill, photographed by Hannah Gadway (2023). Copies of the painting held by National Portrait Gallery, […]

About the Image: Thomas Rowlandson, “High Fun for John Bull, or the Republicans Put to their Last Shift” (November 12, 1798) By KimberMarie Faircloth People often quote Oscar Wilde’s famous […]

(Image: Carabinieri Patrimonio Culturale via NYTimes) Ten years ago, in March of 2016, hundreds of looted artifacts handled by Robin Symes, disgraced London dealer with ties to Italian tomb raiders, […]

There’s a small indie game from 2013 that I think about often. In Lucas Pope’s Papers, Please you play an immigration inspector at the border of the gloriously miserable communist republic of […]

Even by the standards of AI development, where each month often feels like a year, this has been quite the week. Back in April, Anthropic unveiled Claude Mythos, a frontier model that was supposed to […]

By Ian Silverstein On June 2, Day 2 of the Center for the Preservation of Artists’ Legacies (‘CPAL’) conference on preserving artist legacies hosted in the beautifully redesigned former studio […]

Left: Chang Dai-chien, Four Geese attributed to Bada Shanren, hanging scroll; ink on paper Right: Zhu Da (Bada Shanren), Four Geese, hanging scroll; ink on paper By Lena Rohde Since the development […]

Banksy’s Balloon Girl By Cara Ianuale In November of 2025, a judge at London’s Kingston Crown Court sentenced 48-year-old Larry Fraser to thirteen months in jail for the theft of Banksy’s […]

I haven’t really written about machine consciousness, super-intelligence, or artificial general intelligence (AGI) before; I never felt the need, and some of the questions on AI consciousness are […]

If you asked me to name the topic I’d class as my core academic specialisation, you’d probably guess artificial intelligence, and you’d be wrong, or at least premature, that one came later. The […]

March 22, 2014, from NYT March 27, 2016, released by Syrian Arab News Agency By Jacqueline Koutrodimos-Lewis The process of documenting and preserving cultural heritage in digital models takes on […]

By Center for Art Law Team Maybe it’s you?  This story does not begin with: “It was the kind of Saturday morning that makes Zurich weather bearable in early spring, and my morning stroll took me […]

If you were paying attention to music news last month, you may have come across a curious story, unnerving even depending on your priors. An AI-generated artist called IngaRose climbed to the top of […]

Regular readers will know that I have been interested in the pastiche exception for a while now, mostly because it has always struck me as the most underused exceptions under modern copyright law in […]

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 […]