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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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An Appeals Court Clears a Spanish Art Dealer in the Case of a Convent’s Sculpture Offered at TEFAF
After a convoluted process dating back to 2018, the High Court of Justice of Andalusia has overturned a four-year prison sentence for a Spanish antiques dealer in a case involving an artwork from a 16th-century convent in an ancient Italian city just north of Rome, El País reports.reports El País. At the center of the read more
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The Supreme Court has delivered an overdue rebuke to Donald Trump on tariffs
Unlock the White House Watch newsletter for free Your guide to what Trump’s second term means for Washington, business and the world When the time came for the US Supreme Court to stand up and be counted, six of the justices answered the call. Led by Chief Justice John Roberts, they ruled on Friday that read more
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US Supreme Court Strikes Down Trump Tariffs That Had a Tumultuous Effect on the Art Market
Last year was marked by the uncertainty and disruption of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs, which caused tumult in the art market. Now, just over a year after Trump signed executive orders imposing tariffs on major US trading partners Canada, Mexico, and China, the Supreme Court ruled to to strike down most of them. In read more
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South African Court Rejects Gabrielle Goliath’s Bid to Reinstate Venice Biennale Pavilion
A South African high court has dismissed artist Gabrielle Goliath’s last-ditch bid to overturn the cancellation of her Venice Biennale pavilion, rejecting the application just hours before the exhibition’s submission deadline. Goliath’s proposed pavilion, titled Elegy, was selected last month by the nonprofit Art Periodic to represent South Africa at the upcoming Venice Biennale, with read more
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Advocates for the Incarcerated Protest Removal of Artworks from UK Court Facilities
Cultural organizations and reformers in the UK are up in arms against government contractor Serco for removing artworks from court facilities in England and Wales. A February 10 report from Lay Observers, an independent monitor, found that Prisoner Escort and Custody Service, a government agency, provided artworks to all courts. Lay Observers found that only read more
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Jewish Heirs File Suit in French Court Regarding Met’s Ownership of Pissarro Painting
A painting by Camille Pissarro in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art is under renewed scrutiny over the circumstances of its sale by its former owner, the department store magnate and art collector Max Julius Braunthal. As reported by the New York Times, seven of Braunthal’s heirs have filed suit in a French read more
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Goliath Goes to Court, Abramović Brings Installation to Davos: Morning Links for January 21, 2026
To receiveMorning Linksin your inbox every weekday,signupfor ourBreakfast with ARTnewsnewsletter. The Headlines ESCALATION.Two weeks after news broke that South Africa cancelled a Gabrielle Goliath artwork planned for its Venice Biennale pavilion, the artist has announced her next move: taking her dispute to court. Tomorrow Goliath and curator Ingrid Masondo will file an application with South read more
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Sale of Chinese Vase Canceled by French Court Over Question of Provenance
A French court ordered the high-profile Galerie Kraemerin Paris to return €2.8 million (around $3.25 million) to collector Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al Thani over questions about a Chinese vase. The decision follows eight years of legal wrangling over the date attributed to the piece. As reported by the Art Newspaper, the Paris court of read more
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The bug-bounty court bringing order to DeFi
Crypto has created a financial system that runs on code, moves vast sums at the speed of the internet, and can be attacked from anywhere. A single missed check or stray line of code isn’t a minor bug — it can take down an entire protocol. Bug bounties began as an informal pact between developers read more
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