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MASS MoCA v. Büchel: moral rights in an unfinished installation

Decision date · 27 January 2010

Context photograph: MASS MoCA, the museum involved in the dispute.
Context photograph: MASS MoCA, the museum involved in the dispute. Phoebe · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

An artist and a museum disagreed about the handling and proposed presentation of a large unfinished installation.

The decision

The appeals court held that unfinished works can qualify for moral-rights protection and revived part of the artist’s claims.

Source

First Circuit · 593 F.3d 38

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