United States Second Circuit

Summary judgment for defendants, a visual artist and institutions that commissioned and exhibited one of his paintings, is affirmed where an artist's appropriation of a copyrighted image in a collage painting constitutes a protected "fair use" under copyright law.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/26/2006
• Published 10/26/2006

Judges

• SACK, Circuit Judge., Before:  SACK and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, and MURTHA, District Judge.  Judge KATZMANN concurs in a separate opinion.

Court

• United States Second Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Robert W. Cinque, Cinque & Cinque, P.C. (James P. Cinque, of counsel) New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• John B. Koegel, The Koegel Group, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Jeff Koons., Lawrence B. Friedman, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (Inna Reznik, Hoon-Jung Kim, of counsel) New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee The Solomon R. GuggenheimFoundation., Carol A. Witschel, White & Case LLP (Steven Betensky, Stefan M. Mentzer, of counsel), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Deutsche Bank AG.