"Richard Prince, an "appropriation artist" well-known in creative spheres, is showing blown-up screen shots from his Instagram feed in renowned Manhattan galleries. The contemporary counterparts of Wilde's Gilded Age fan base buy the inkjet-on-canvas prints for upwards of $100,000. The original snappers hear through the proverbial grapevine that their filtered selfies are featured in high-end art shows. Copyright law has evolved markedly in the century separating Richard Prince from Napoleon Sarony. On the shoulders of Andy Warhol and Jeff Koons, Prince has made a decades-long career selling slightly altered versions of other people's images. He evades copyright infringement liability through legal principles that allow certain "transformative works" to make use of copyright-protected materials without the owner's consent. Broadly, a transformative "fair use" alters or recontextualizes the original work for the purpose of commentary, criticism, or parody. All of the pieces in the Instagram-based New Portraits series include Prince's own original "comment" within the captured frame, submitted via his Instagram handle, "richardprince1234". He also enlarges the images and moves them from digital to print media. The original photos, which cover most of the space on the printed canvases, remain otherwise untouched. Donald Graham, a career photographer whose portrait of a Rastafarian man was involuntarily featured in New Portraits, is not impressed. In a complaint filed in federal court this January, Graham calls Prince's work a "blatant disregard of copyright law". Graham's suit challenges whether Prince's transformations are sufficient to trigger "fair use" protection... At the intersection of copyright and social media, balancing the benefits of exposure with the risks of theft and appropriation is an evolving challenge."
Wednesday, March 16, 2016
Photo Copyright: Oscar Wilde, Richard Prince, and Your Instagram Content; Huffington Post, 3/15/16
Kim Farbota, Huffington Post; Photo Copyright: Oscar Wilde, Richard Prince, and Your Instagram Content:
4/28/16 Intellectual Property Workshop : Trademark Seminar; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Intellectual Property Workshop : Trademark Seminar:
Thursday, April 28, 2016 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Join us for this workshop that will help you navigate the sometimes confusing world of trademarks. Presenters from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will help you understand the basics of trademark law and what you need to do in order to protect your business name or logo. A limited number of one-on-one appointments with an intellectual property attorney are available from 2:30-4:30; please call 412-622-3133 to secure a spot. Presented by: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Event fee: Free Location: International Poetry Room - 2nd Floor Main Library 4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Contact: Irene Yelovich 412-622-3133 yelovichi@carnegielibrary.org
4/14/16 Intellectual Property Workshop : Patent Seminar; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh; Intellectual Property Workshop : Patent Seminar:
Thursday, April 14, 2016 5:30 PM - 8:00 PM Join us for this workshop that will help you navigate the often complicated world of patents. Presenters from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office will help you understand the basics of patent law and how the patent application process works. A limited number of one-on-one appointments with an intellectual property attorney are available from 2:30-4:30; please call 412-622-3133 to secure a spot. Presented by: U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Event fee: Free Location: International Poetry Room - 2nd Floor Main Library 4400 Forbes Ave Pittsburgh, PA 15213 Contact: Irene Yelovich 412-622-3133 yelovichi@carnegielibrary.org
4/7/16 Intellectual Property Workshop: Copyright Seminar; Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Intellectual Property Workshop: Copyright Seminar:
Thursday, April 7, 2016
5:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Have you ever wondered how to best protect your artistic or literary works or struggled to determine if you're able to use someone else's content? Learn the basics of copyright law and how to go about applying for copyright protection. A limited number of one-on-one appointments with an intellectual property attorney are available from 2:30-4:30 before the presentation; sign up early to secure a spot.
Presented by: US Patent and Trademark Office
Event fee: Free
Location: International Poetry Room - 2nd Floor Main Library
4400 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213
Contact: Irene Yelovich
412-622-3133
yelovichi@carnegielibrary.org
Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet; New York Times, 3/15/16
Amy Harmon, New York Times; Handful of Biologists Went Rogue and Published Directly to Internet:
"On Feb. 29, Carol Greider of Johns Hopkins University became the third Nobel Prize laureate biologist in a month to do something long considered taboo among biomedical researchers: She posted a report of her recent discoveries to a publicly accessible website, bioRxiv, before submitting it to a scholarly journal to review for “official’’ publication. It was a small act of information age defiance, and perhaps also a bit of a throwback, somewhat analogous to Stephen King’s 2000 self-publishing an e-book or Radiohead’s 2007 release of a download-only record without a label. To commemorate it, she tweeted the website’s confirmation under the hashtag #ASAPbio, a newly coined rallying cry of a cadre of biologists who say they want to speed science by making a key change in the way it is published... The delays prevent scientists from showing off their most recent work to prospective employers or benefactors. They have also, some researchers say, begun to look faintly absurd against the general expectations for speed and openness in the not-so-new digital age. With the rapid spread of the Zika virus, for instance, several journals signed a statement promising that scientists would not be penalized for immediately releasing their findings, given the potential benefit for public health, in turn prompting some scientists to ask, why draw the line at Zika?"
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