Join CAMCHL and CIPLIT for “Arts Law Colloquium: Art and its Image: Perspectives from Copyright, Trademark, and Cultural Property Law” with Dr. Felicia Caponigri, Visiting Scholar, Chicago-Kent College of Law; Guest Scholar, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca.

This event will be hybrid, both in person and online. Lunch will be provided for in-person guests. 1.0 hour CLE available for IL attendees.

Description
In our Instagram (and now AI) age, we all visit a museum, a cultural site, or a historic property and snap a picture of ourselves with what we might call a work of art. And, walking through a gift shop of that same museum or historic site, we might buy a t-shirt or a canvas bag with an image of a work of art. But is all of this engagement with art, and its images, always legal? To use a classic legal answer, it depends. In Italy public museums are increasingly using cultural property law to police certain uses of the images of cultural properties, while in the United States a strong public domain prevails for the images of many works of art, so long as they have aged out of copyright law. Brands, including heritage brands closely connected to cultural heritage, use images of art in their marketing campaigns with varying results. In this talk, Dr. Caponigri comparatively presents how different rules in copyright, trademark, and cultural property law apply to art and its image, exploring, in the process, how the law shapes the origins of artworks in our technology-infused age.

Speaker Bio:
Felicia Caponigri, J.D., Ph.D. is an American lawyer and comparative cultural heritage, art, and fashion law scholar. As part of her academic activities and projects, Dr. Caponigri collaborates with brands and cultural institutions on design and heritage initiatives. Her work has been published in the Chicago-Kent Journal of Intellectual Property, the Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, the Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, the Giornale di Arte e Diritto Online, The Case Western Reserve Journal of International Law, The Notre Dame Journal of International and Comparative Law, and the Notre Dame Law Review Online, among others. She has presented her work at the Luxury Law Summit in London, the AALS Annual Conference, the Newberry Library in Chicago, the Graduate Center of the City University of New York and at the Università degli Studi di Firenze in Italy, among other conferences around the world. A member of the Indiana bar, Dr. Caponigri received her Ph.D. in Cultural Heritage from the IMT School for Advanced Studies in Lucca, Italy, her Juris Doctor, magna cum laude, from Notre Dame Law School and her B.A., cum laude, in Art History from The University of Notre Dame.