Legal Opinion
Blanch v. Koons
Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit
Decided October 26, 2006No. Docket No. 05-6433-CVPublishedCited by 128 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SACK, Circuit Judge.
This appeal presents the question whether an artist’s appropriation of a copyrighted image in a collage painting is, under the circumstances, protected “fair use” under the copyright law. See 17 U.S.C. § 107.
On commission from defendants Deutsche Bank AG, a German corporation (“Deutsche Bank”), and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, a New York not-for-profit corporation (“Guggenheim”), defendant Jeff Koons created a collage painting, initially for display in Berlin, Germany, in which he copied, but altered the appearance of, part of a copyrighted photograph taken by the…
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