In this case, Plaintiff Patrick Cariou, a French photographer, filed a
copyright infringement
The act of violating any of a copyright owner's exclusive rights granted by law. In the United States, a copyright owner has several exclusive rights in copyrighted works, including the rights (a) to reproduce the work, (b) to prepare derivative works based on the work, (c) to distribute copies of the work, (d) for certain kinds of works, to perform the work publicly, (e) for certain kinds of works, to display the work publicly, (f) for sound recordings, to perform the work publicly, and (g) to import into the United States copies acquired elsewhere (Black’s Law Dictionary (8th ed. 2004)).
copyright infringement action against “appropriation” artist Richard Prince, Prince’s dealer Lawrence Gagosian and the Gagosian Gallery, Inc. (“Gagosian Defendants”), and Rizzoli International Publications, Inc. under the Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. §101 et seq., claiming that Prince’s
Canal Zone paintings, exhibited and sold by Gagosian, infringed the copyrights owned by Cariou for the photographs published in his 2000 book
Yes Rasta. Rizzoli Publications was voluntarily dismissed from the action on February 5th, 2010, and both sides moved for
summary judgment.The Court . . . .
