Photographs Taken 91 Years Ago Still in Conflict Today

Warhol’s ‘Orange Prince’ Brought to Court: Part 2 (Arguments from Lynn Goldsmith)

Warhol’s ‘Orange Prince’ Brought to Court: Part 1 (Arguments from the Andy Warhol Foundation)

Kat Von D, Think Before You Ink

Ironic Advocacy at Its Best: The Bay Apologizes to Hadiya Roderique for Copyright Infringement Mistake

Legal Battle Over Monkey’s Selfie Leads to Settlement

Recently British photographer David Slater came to a settlement with People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) in a lawsuit over who owns the copyright to a selfie taken by a monkey, Naruto, who used his camera to take a photograph of herself on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi. The photograph was taken in […]

Bigger Picture, Bigger Frame? Dr. Saptarishi Bandopadhyay's Recast of Narrative in Copyright and Disaster Photography

On February 8, Osgoode Hall Catalyst Fellow, Dr. Saptarishi Bandopadhyay, presented his ongoing project that involves the critical examination of the relationship between copyright laws and disaster photography. Bandopadhyay holds a Doctor of Juridical Science (SJD) and LLM from Harvard Law School and has studied disasters in the borderlands between Pakistan, India, China and the […]

Looks Are Not Everything; Professor Amy Adler's Future of Art

Earlier this month, Osgoode Hall Law School welcomed Amy Adler, New York University’s Emily Kempin Professor of Law, to present on copyright and the future of art. Professor Adler is a leading scholar of art law and specializes in the legal regulation of artistic expression, sexuality and free speech. Visual artists today, as she describes, […]

New Portraits: May Richard Prince Fair(ly) Use Your Picture?

The prince of appropriation strikes again! Visual artist Richard Prince caused a major uproar in the art world with his latest exhibition, New Portraits. The series of photographs, which features enlarged screenshots of Instagram posts made by different users, has been the object of controversy after it was reportedly found that Prince never asked for […]

Kettle Of Fish: The Concept Of Originality In Protecting Photographic Works

  Andrew Baker is a LLB/BCL candidate at McGill University Faculty of Law. A decision of the Cour de Cassation de la France has led to some uncertainty as to when a photograph constitutes an intellectual work subject to protection.