McNatt v. Prince et al

  1. January 26, 2024

    CORRECTED: Richard Prince Pays $900K To End IP Suits Over Instagram Art

    Artist Richard Prince will pay a pair of photographers a combined $650,000 plus $250,000 in costs to end their claims that he infringed their work for a 2014 Instagram-inspired art installation, putting to rest a yearslong legal battle just before one of the cases was set to go to trial Monday.

  2. January 01, 2024

    Trials To Watch In 2024

    Major trials coming down the pike in 2024 include a wealthy Russian art collector's suit against Sotheby's, first bellwethers in multidistrict litigation over allegations Chiquita funded a violent group in Colombia, and a criminal case against U.S. Sen. Bob Menendez. Here's a rundown.

  3. September 11, 2023

    Photographer's Suit Over Richard Prince Installation Narrowed

    A New York federal judge on Monday trimmed a copyright infringement suit alleging the well-known appropriation artist Richard Prince and the Gagosian Gallery stole a photographer's work for Prince's Instagram-inspired art installation, ruling the photographer is not entitled to indirect profits or future profits from the work's hypothetical resale.

  4. May 26, 2023

    Richard Prince Challenges Part Of Art Show Copyright Loss

    Artist Richard Prince is urging a New York federal judge to partially reconsider a May order that rebuffed his bid to beat two photographers' claims that he poached their copyrighted imagery for an Instagram-inspired art installation, arguing the court relied on "materially different" precedent for an aspect of the ruling.

  5. May 12, 2023

    Richard Prince Can't Skip Out On Art Show Copyright Suits

    A New York federal judge on Thursday denied artist Richard Prince's bid to ax infringement suits from two photographers whose works were featured in an installation designed to look like Instagram posts, finding that Prince "indeed tested the boundary" between appropriation and copyright infringement, but went over the line.

  6. October 09, 2018

    Instagram Art Show Was Fair Use, Richard Prince Says

    Visual artist Richard Prince is pushing to end copyright litigation over his Instagram-themed art exhibit, arguing he was allowed to display largely unaltered versions of other artists' images because he used them in "a radically different aesthetic context."

  7. November 16, 2016

    Richard Prince Hit With Another IP Suit By Photographer

     Artist Richard Prince on Wednesday was hit with yet another copyright infringement lawsuit for exhibiting photos he pulled from Instagram without permission, with the suit in New York federal court alleging the "appropriation artist" stole a portrait of Sonic Youth front woman Kim Gordon.