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Campbell v. Koons & Sonnabend Gallery

Campbell v. Koons & Sonnabend Gallery, Inc., 1993 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 3957 (S.D.N.Y. Apr. 1, 1993).

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In this New York federal case, plaintiff photographer Barbara Campbell sought partial summary judgment against defendants appropriation artist Jeff Koons and Sonnabend Gallery for copyright infringement of her 1985 photograph, Boys with Pigs. Campbell claimed that Koons deliberately and willfully copied Boys with Pigs to create his 1988 sculpture…

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Copyrights, 17 U.S.C. § 501, (Copyright Act of 1976), Infringement of Copyright

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