Some Recent and Fun Developments in Art Law
with Hon. Simon J. Frankel
"Art law” includes a wide range of legal issues that implicate the creation, distribution, reproduction, display, transfer, and preservation of visual art--everything from copyright to contracts to tax to international trade to freedom of expression and more. This presentation will review some of the more interesting recent developments in legal issues related to art, including copyright and trademark developments bearing on visual art, recent fair use cases concerning art, copyright and generative artificial intelligence issues bearing on art, recent moral rights cases, and recent decisions and legislation concerning Nazi-looted art restitution and repatriation of cultural property.
Simon J. Frankel is a Judge on the Superior Court of California, County of San Francisco, and an adjunct lecturer at Stanford Law School, where he has taught a course on Art and the Law since 2012. He is co-author, with Stephen K. Urice and the late John Henry Merryman, of Law, Ethics, and the Visual Arts, sixth edition (Cambridge University Press 2025), long the foundational text in the field of art law. Before joining the bench in 2023, he practiced law in San Francisco for 28 years, focusing on copyright and trademark litigation, technology disputes, and litigation and counseling concerning visual art.
This event is eligible for 1.0 California MCLE credit.
