Legal Opinion
Phillips v. Pembroke Real Estate, Inc.
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided August 22, 2006No. 05-1970PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
LIPEZ, Circuit Judge.
This case raises important questions about the application of the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (‘VARA”), 17 U.S.C. § 106A, to “site-specific art”, which is a subset of “integrated art”. A work of “integrated art” is comprised of two or more physical objects that must be presented together as the artist intended for the work to retain its meaning and integrity. In a work of “site-specific art”, one of the component physical objects is the location of the art. To remove a work of site-specific art from its original site is to destroy it.
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David Phillips brought suit…
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3Cited by21 opinions
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