Monthly Archives: June 2009
Interview with Claire Marmion, Art Curator, Insurance Expert/Adjustor, Art Connector
We are lucky to have Claire Marmion, one of the great experts on the art market and art values, join us today for an interview. Claire manages art collections, helps people avoid art loss and provides art insurance adjustment. Coco: Hi, Claire Claire: Hello. Coco: Thank you so much for joining us today. Claire: Happy [...]
Copyright Pitfall No. 1: When Nature Inspires Your Art, Watch Out
By Tobias Butler, Attorney at Law Copyright law is prejudiced against art that depicts nature. Faithful recreations of nature by themselves are simply not copyrightable. And, regardless of the beauty and innovation of a work of art, it can miss copyright protection if the artist fails to incorporate anything beyond exact elements from the natural [...]
Good Faith Gifting?
Would you accept a stolen Van Gogh as a gift? Of course not. What if the work wasn’t so much "stolen," as it was "nationalized" for the good of the homeland? To help fund stimulus grants, say the work was sold twenty years later to an old college friend of yours, and thirty years after that your college friend gave it to [...]