Moral rights case of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/22/arts/design/22moca.html A federal judge ruled yesterday that the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art has the right to display an immense unfinished installation by Christoph B?chel, a Swiss artist whose relationship with the museum fell apart early this year, leading to a bitter public battle over control of the work and over artists' rights in general. The judge, Michael A. Ponsor, in Federal District Court in Springfield, Mass., said that the museum's display of the work would not, as Mr. B?chel argued, violate the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990, which provides that an artist has the right to "prevent the use of his or her name as the author of the work of visual art in the event of a distortion, mutilation, or other modification of the work." Amalyah Keshet Head of Image Resources & Copyright Management The Israel Museum, Jerusalem akeshet at imj.org.il Chair, MCN IP SIG www.mcn.edu Blog www.musematic.net
