ART LAW COMMITTEE INTERNET RESOURCES (AS OF 2010-MAY-14) I. GENERAL ART LAW BLOGS The Art Law Blog [Donn Zaretsky] http://theartlawblog.blogspot.com The Art Market Blog [Nicholas Forrest] http://artmarketblog.com The Art Newspaper http://www.theartnewspaper.com Artdaily.org http://www.artdaily.com The Artful Manager [Andrew Taylor] http://www.artsjournal.com/artfulmanager Clancco [Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento] http://clancco.com/wp Culture Grrl [Lee Rosenbaum] http://www.artsjournal.com/culturegrrl Edward Winkleman (current art market issues and the state of the art world) http://edwardwinkleman.blogspot.com Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Blog, New York State Bar Association http://nysbar.com/blogs/easl II. ACADEMIA Cardozo Art Law Society, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law http://www.cardozo.yu.edu/membercontentdisplay.aspx?ccmd=contentdisplay&ucmd= UserDisplay&userid=170 http://cardozoartlawsociety.blogspot.com 1
Kernochan Center for Law, Media and the Arts, Columbia Law School http://www.kernochancenter.org Center for Art, Museum, & Cultural Property Law, DePaul University College of Law http://www.law.depaul.edu/centers_institutes/art_museum Harvard Art Law Research Guide, Harvard Law School http://www.law.harvard.edu/library/research/guides/united_states/art_law.html Intellectual Property Law Review, Marquette University Law School http://law.marquette.edu/cgi-bin/site.pl?2130&pageid=4317 Art and the Law, Stanford Law School http://www.law.stanford.edu/program/courses/details/236/art%20and%20the%20law III. ALTERNATIVE DISPUTE RESOLUTION AND MEDIATION Judicial Arbitration and Mediation Services, Inc. (JAMS) http://www.jamsadr.com/ MediateArt, Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) http://www.vlany.org/mediateart IV. ANTIQUITIES, CULTURAL PROPERTY, AND LOOTED ART Art & Cultural Heritage Law Committee, American Bar Association http://www.abanet.org/dch/committee.cfm?com=ic936000 The Art Loss Register http://www.artloss.com Art Theft Central [Mark Durney] http://arttheftcentral.blogspot.com The Assemblage (Political Archaeology) http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com The Hunt for the Art: The Gardner Museum Theft Blog, The Boston Herald 2
http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/art_hunt Commission for Looted Art in Europe http://www.lootedartcommission.com Culture in Peril [Nicholas Merkelson] http://cultureinperil.blogspot.com Art Theft Program, Federal Bureau of Investigation http://www.fbi.gov/hq/cid/arttheft/arttheft.htm International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property (ICCROM) http://www.iccrom.org/eng/news_en/2010_en/field_en/press_en.shtml Illicit Cultural Property: A Weblog about Art, Antiquities and the Law [Derek Fincham] http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com International Council of Museums (fighting the illicit traffic in cultural property) http://icom.museum/traffic_links.html International Foundation for Art Research http://www.ifar.org/case_law_statutes.php Interpol: Stolen Works of Art http://www.interpol.int/public/workofart The Lawyers Committee for Cultural Heritage Preservation http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org Looting Matters [David Gill] http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com Museum Security Network http://www.museum-security.org Saving Antiquities For Everyone (SAFE) http://www.savingantiquities.org Scotland Yard Art and Antiquities Unit (United Kingdom) http://www.met.police.uk/artandantiques 3
United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) Cultural Heritage http://portal.unesco.org/culture/en/ev.php- URL_ID=2185&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html V. AUTHENTICATION/PROVENANCE Note: Many museums other than the ones listed also have provenance pages. Provenance Research Project, The Art Institute of Chicago http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/services/guides/provenance WWII Provenance Research Project, Boston Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) http://www.mfa.org/master/sub.asp?key=41&subkey=342 Chinese Art-Research into Provenance (CARP) http://www.hatii.arts.gla.ac.uk/admn/php/carp/index.php Getty Museum Provenance Research http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/provenance_index Harvard Provenance Research http://www.artmuseums.harvard.edu/provenance/servlet/webpublisher.webcommunicati on?ia=tr&ic=pt&t=xhtml&x=prov Metropolitan Museum Provenance Research Project http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/provenance/index.asp Nazi-Era Provenance Internet Portal http://www.nepip.org VI. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY BLOGS Copyright Alliance Blog [Patrick Ross] http://blog.copyrightalliance.org Copyrights and Campaigns [Ben Sheffner] http://copyrightsandcampaigns.blogspot.com Copyright Litigation Blog [Ray Dowd] http://www.copyrightlitigation.blogspot.com 4
Digital Eccentric [Leslie Johnston] http://digitaleccentric.blogspot.com Intellectual Property Watch [Monika Ermert] http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/2009/09/29/icanns-new-us-contract-and-new-top-leveldomains-its-not-over Michael Geist's Blog http://www.michaelgeist.ca On Copyright, Copyright Clearance Center http://oncopyright.copyright.com Stock Artists Alliance (SAA) Orphan Works Blog http://orphanworks.blogspot.com The Intellectual Property Alternative Dispute Resolution Blog http://www.ipadrblog.com VII. LAW FIRM/CORPORATION PUBLICATIONS Note: Many law firms/corporations other than the ones listed also have publication pages. ARIS Corporation http://www.aris-corporation.com/news Bryan Cave http://www.artlawteam.com Danziger, Danziger & Muro, LLP http://www.danziger.com/articlesnews Dilanchian Lawyers & Consultants http://www.dilanchian.com.au Fox Rothschild http://artlaw.foxrothschild.com Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman, P.C. http://www.grr.com/publications.htm 5
Herrick, Feinstein LLP http://www.herrick.com/sitecontent.cfm?pageid=11&itemid=1303 HG.org http://www.hg.org/art.html Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP http://www.pbwt.com/practiceareas/art-museum-law Sheppard Mullin http://www.artlawgallery.com Withers Worldwide http://www.withersworldwide.com/practice-areas/business/cultural-assets-art.aspx VIII. MEMBER BLOGS/ARTICLES/FIRM NEWSLETTERS ARIS Corporation (Sherri North Cohen) http://www.aris-corporation.com/news ArtNet: Spencer s Art Law Journal (Ronald D. Spencer) http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/news/spencer/spencers-art-law-journal4-6-10.asp Danziger, Danziger & Muro, LLP (Charles Danziger) http://www.danziger.com/articlesnews Gottlieb Rackman & Reisman, P.C. (George Gottlieb) http://www.grr.com/publications.htm Herrick, Feinstein LLP (Former Chair, Howard Spiegler) http://www.herrick.com/sitecontent.cfm?pageid=11&itemid=1303 Metropolitan Museum Provenance Research Project (Rebecca Noonan Murray) http://www.metmuseum.org/works_of_art/provenance/index.asp Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP (John Sare) http://www.pbwt.com/practiceareas/art-museum-law Withers Worldwide (Ralph Lerner) http://www.withersworldwide.com/practice-areas/business/cultural-assets-art.aspx 6
IX. LEGISLATION/GOVERNMENT AFFAIRS Note: There are not many specific resources in this area; the general art law blogs usually do a comprehensive job of tracking new legislation. Dewey21C (arts education blog) http://www.artsjournal.com/dewey21c New York State Bar Association Section on Entertainment, Arts and Sports Law Blog, Legislation Archives http://nysbar.com/blogs/easl/legislation The Art Law Blog, Legislation http://theartlawblog.blogspot.com/search?q=legislation Art Advisory Panel, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) http://www.irs.gov/individuals/article/0,,id=96804,00.html X. NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATIONS American Law Institute, American Bar Association (ALI-ABA): Legal Issues in Museum Administration, Conference Website http://www.ali-aba.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=courses.course&course_code=cr005 ARTStor http://www.artstor.org Association for Research into Crimes against Art (ARCA) http://art-crime.blogspot.com http://arcapodcasts.blogspot.com College Art Association http://www.collegeart.org/news/category/legal-issues Creative Commons http://creativecommons.org/ International Foundation for Art Research http://www.ifar.org/case_law_statutes.php 7
Lawyers' Committee for Cultural Heritage Protection (LCCHP) http://www.culturalheritagelaw.org New York Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (NY VLA) http://www.vlany.org New York Foundation for the Arts http://www.nyfa.org/level3.asp?id=199&fid=1&sid=51 State of the Art, Innovations and Impediments in Non-for-profit Arts http://www.artsjournal.com/state XI. TAX AND ESTATES Note: the general art law blogs usually do a good job of discussing relevant tax and estate issues. Below are some good resources on tax law and trust and estate law generally. Death and Taxes - The Blog http://www.deathandtaxesblog.com New York Probate Litigation Blog http://www.nyprobatelitigation.com New York Trusts & Estates Law Blog http://www.trustsestateslaw.com New York Trusts & Estates Litigation Blog http://www.nyestatelitigationblog.com Tax Prof Blog http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog Tax, Trusts & Estates Law Monitor http://www.taxtrustsandestateslawmonitor.com Wills Trusts & Estates Prof Blog http://lawprofessors.typepad.com/trusts_estates_prof 8