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Australia · Moral rights

Meskenas: a magazine credited the wrong portrait painter

Decision date · 18 July 2006

Context photograph: Law Courts Building in Sydney, a seat of the Federal Court of Australia.
Context photograph: Law Courts Building in Sydney, a seat of the Federal Court of Australia. JustARandomEditor123 · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

A magazine published a photograph in which a portrait by Vladas Meskenas appeared and attributed the painting to another artist.

The decision

The court found that the false attribution infringed the painter’s moral rights.

Source

Federal Magistrates Court · [2006] FMCA 1136

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