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Rogers v. Koons: a puppy photograph recast as sculpture

Decision date · 2 April 1992

Context photograph: Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, New York.
Context photograph: Thurgood Marshall United States Courthouse, New York. Mike Peel (www.mikepeel.net) · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Resized

The dispute

Jeff Koons commissioned a sculpture based on Art Rogers’s photograph of a couple holding puppies.

The decision

The appeals court upheld the infringement finding and rejected Koons’s fair-use defense.

Source

Second Circuit · 960 F.2d 301

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