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Art Law: Cases and Materials, Third Edition

Authors
  • Leonard D. DuBoff
  • Michael D. Murray
Series / Aspen Casebook Series
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Table of contents
Preface

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Art Law: Cases and Materials, Third Edition is written by Leonard DuBoff, a founder of the discipline of art law, and by Michael Murray, a prolific scholar of art law and intellectual property law. The current edition focuses on law and the visual arts world that now embraces the disruptive forces of blockchains and non-fungible tokens (NFTs). Designed as a primary text for courses on art law, law and the visual arts, cultural property law, or cultural heritage law, the three-part framework of this highly readable casebook explores artists’ rights under copyright, trademark, right of publicity, moral rights, and the First Amendment; art markets including the law of galleries, dealers, auctions, and museums; and the legal issues surrounding international preservation of art and cultural property, including smuggling and theft in peacetime, looting and plundering in wartime, and protection of native and indigenous peoples’ art.

New to the Third Edition:

  • As stated by the author of the introduction, Jane Ginsburg of Columbia Law School says,
    • “The tremendous sweep of this casebook takes in the manifold fields that the apparently simple name ‘Art Law’ implicates. From ‘What is Art?’ through the different kinds of intellectual property encompassed within artists’ rights, through censorship and freedom of expression to the many permutations of the art market, and on to international and domestic protections of cultural property, the casebook enmeshes the student in an extraordinary variety of fascinating, and often intractable, legal issues. The current edition not only generally updates its predecessor but adds such cutting-edge digital matters as NFTs (which unsettle some notions of “what is art,” and pervade the gamut of IP issues), the role of artificial intelligence in the creation of works of art, and the impact of deepfakes on the right of publicity.”
  • The Third Edition explores how NFTs and the market for digital art has changed how artists, collectors, and the general public view and interact with the art world. NFTs have disrupted the calculation of what is art and who is an artist and challenge the centuries old systems of valuation of art even though they apply the same basic factors of scarcity, provenance (authenticity), attribution to a particular artist, popularity, historical significance, and potential for growth in value.
  • NFTs and metaverse have thrust an entirely new class of creators and content owners into a crypto community that disfavors law and champions copying. NFTs have made digital art a popular and expensive art investment, but this pushes to the forefront the uncomfortable uncertainties of how the law treats digital works under the copyright first sale doctrine.
  • NFTs now enable American artists to list and sell art works linked to smart contracts that set a rate for the payment of resale royalties and can issue a royalty payment whenever these art works are resold on an exchange that supports the payment of royalties for transactions on the blockchain where the art is registered.
  • The text also explores how deep fakes and AI rendering technologies have created new issues regarding unauthorized uses in false endorsement situations and lookalike avatars and profile pictures (PFPs).

Professors and students will benefit from:

  • A very current text covering the real world and metaverse art world of the 2020s
  • A rich collection of illustrations from and about the cases and issues
  • PowerPoints that cover each case, topic, and subtopic
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About the authors
Leonard D. DuBoff
Professor
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Founding Member, The DuBoff Law Group, LLC, Portland, Oregon.

Michael D. Murray
Professor
University of Kentucky

Michael D. Murray is the Spears Gilbert Associate Professor of Law at the University of Kentucky, J. David Rosenberg College of Law. He previously taught at the law schools of the University of Michigan, University of Illinois, Saint Louis University, University of Massachusetts, and Valparaiso University. Professor Murray teaches law school, graduate school, and undergraduate honors courses in Art Law, Civil Procedure, First Amendment and Censorship, International Art Law, International Civil Liberties: Freedom of Expression, Introduction to Advocacy, Legal Writing and Analysis, Professional Responsibility, and Remedies.

Professor Murray is the author or coauthor of twenty-eight books and thirty law review articles on art law, civil procedure, copyright, freedom of expression, law and the health care professions, legal research and writing, products liability, and right of publicity law. Professor Murray graduated summa cum laude from Loyola University in Maryland and received a graduate certificate from Fudan University in Shanghai, China. He also graduated from Columbia Law School, where he was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar. He was a member of a national champion Jessup International Law Moot Court team at Columbia, and Notes Editor of the Columbia Journal of Transnational Law. After law school, he clerked for United States District Judge John F. Nangle of the Eastern District of Missouri and Chair of the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation. Murray also practiced commercial, intellectual property, and products liability litigation for seven years at Bryan Cave law firm in St. Louis.

Product Information
Edition
Third Edition
Publication date
2023-02-01
Copyright Year
2023
Pages
860
Connected eBook + Hardcover
9781543819786
Connected eBook (Digital Only)
9798886144499
Subject
Elective, Other
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