Burden of History: Holocaust-Related Art Restitution and the Art Market in New York
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JIPEL Vol. 15 – No. 2
You may view and download a PDF of the complete issue here. Our Spring 2026 Issue—Volume 15, Number 2—brings together scholarship that grapples with a shared, increasingly urgent set of questions: how…
Risky Business: Fraud, Authenticity, and Limited Legal Protections in the High Art Market
Katie Dixon* & Zachary Shufro** Download a PDF version of this article here. Heus, tu insidiator, ac alieni laboris et ingenii surreptor, ne manus temerarias his nostris operibus inicias cave.…
Charging Bull, Fearless Girl, Artistic Composition, and Copyright
Richard Chused* Download a PDF of this article here. Introduction I. A Tale of Compositional Conflict A. A Brief History of Charging Bull B.Origins of Fearless Girl and Subsequent Controversy…
Through the Looking Glass: Photography and the Idea/Expression Dichotomy
Copyright law has always expressed an idea/expression dichotomy, where copyright protection extends not to an idea of a work but only to work’s expression of that idea. Alas, this distinction…
Un-Blurring Substantial Similarity: Aesthetic Judgments and Romantic Authorship in Music Copyright Law
Music copyright disputes have been in the limelight since long before George Harrison subconsciously ripped off the Chiffons. Yet, with copyright holders becoming ever more litigious, disputes over musical rights…
How Rings Fit into the Copyright Scheme: Assessing Their Intrinsic Utilitarian Function
This Note examines how rings fit into the copyright system as sculptural pieces not subject to the separability test under the useful articles doctrine. It focuses exclusive on rings, as…
The Interview: John Koegel & Barton Beebe
John Koegel, attorney and founder of the law firm The Koegel Group LLP, and Barton Beebe, John M. Desmarais Professor of Intellectual Property Law at NYU School of Law, discuss…