Tag: Copyright
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Sprüth Magers Removes AI-Assisted David Salle Painting Amid Copyright Controversy
A painting inDavid Salle’s new exhibitionatSprüthMagersin Los Angeles has been removed from view after critics questioned whether the painter copied another artist’s work. Salle’s painting,Hatchet (2025), features as its primary subject a woman in a black-and-white dress—her face cropped by the edge of the canvas—brandishing a sledgehammer.The exhibition, titled “My Frankenstein,”opened on February 24, and read more
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Supreme Court Declines to Reconsider Copyright Case on AI Art
The US Supreme Court said on Monday that it will not hear a case over whether art by artificial intelligence can recieve copyright protection. The decision all but ends the years-long quest by computer scientist Stephen Thaler to have art crafted by his AI system “DABUS” recieve federal copyright protection. In a 2024 profile in read more
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South Carolina Artist Wins $158K in Copyright Infringement Case Over Mural
A judge in U.S. District Court in South Carolina has awarded local artist Todd Atkinson $158,400 in a copyright infringement case against artist Chan Shepherd and the owner of the building on which Atkinson’s mural was originally painted. Atkinson painted the mural, of a train and a water tank, with the words “Water Tank” in read more
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