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Bauret v. Koons: a photograph adapted into Naked

Decision date · 17 December 2019

Context photograph: Entrance to the French Court of Cassation at the Paris Palais de Justice.
Context photograph: Entrance to the French Court of Cassation at the Paris Palais de Justice. Tiraden · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

Jean-François Bauret’s heirs challenged Koons’s use of his photograph Enfants in creating the sculpture Naked.

The decision

The court upheld the infringement finding and rejected the asserted parody defense.

Source

Paris Court of Appeal · RG 17/09695

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