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by Dennis Crouch Let me peel back the layers of this slippery copyright dispute that has the art world going bananas. In Morford v. Cattelan, No. 23-12263 (11th Cir. 2024), the Eleventh Circuit confronted the question of whether an artist can claim copyright protection over the concept of taping a banana to a wall. The appellate court sided with the accused famous artist, Morford continues to pursue his copyright action in a newly filed petition for writ of certiorari to the Supreme Court. The core dispute stems from Maurizio Cattelan’s notorious work “Comedian” (2019), which sold for an eye-peeling $120,000 at Art Basel Miami — and later garnered a $6 million price for one of a ...

patentlyo.com     Jan 06, 2025