The Art Newspaper reported yesterday:
The Belgian artist Luc Tuymans was found guilty of copyright infringement in a legal dispute over a portrait he created in 2011. A civil court in Antwerp ruled on 15 January that Tuymans’s painting A Belgian Politician—a dramatically cropped image of the MP Jean-Marie Dedecker—borrowed too heavily from a photograph taken one year earlier by Katrijn Van Giel, a photojournalist for the Flemish newspaper De Standaard……
Read the full article here: http://theartnewspaper.com/articles/Tuymans-found-guilty-in-copyright-case-involving-political-portrait/36825
Commentary from todays Guardian by Adrian Searle: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/jan/21/luc-tuysmans-katrijn-van-giel-dedecker-legal-case
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