Best-selling novelist Nora Roberts is suing a Brazilian writer for copyright infringement, alleging that Cristiane Serruya has committed “multi-plagiarism” on a “rare and scandalous” level.
Read moreIt’s a thin line where the patina of age on Europe’s countless monuments gives way to the onset of neglect. As with so many loved ones, all is assumed to be fine, until suddenly it’s not.
Read moreRecasting claims that it spent nearly a decade shaping in federal court, a Paris gallery demands more than $18 million from a New York art dealer that it accuses of spoiling its contract with a now-deceased Chinese-French painter.
Read moreNearly $1 billion has already poured in from ordinary worshippers and high-powered magnates around the world to restore the fire-ravaged Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, after the French president set a five-year deadline to get the work done.
Read moreA federal judge confirmed a $3.9 million arbitration award to Paisley Park Enterprises against sound engineer George Ian Boxill, and ordered Boxill to return all the materials he obtained in his work for the late performer Prince.
Read moreA federal judge granted default judgment to LL Cool J, a rapper whose real name is James Todd Smith, enjoining concert promoter Guerrilla Union from using the trademark “Rock the Bells.”
Read moreA Paris auction house says it’s selling a revolver that was possibly used by Dutch painter Vincent van Gogh to take his own life.
Read moreAfter a nearly 48-hour manhunt, police arrested the suspect they say gunned down Nipsey Hussle in front of the popular rapper’s South Los Angeles clothing store.
Read moreLos Angeles police are seeking a 29-year-old man who they believe shot and killed Nipsey Hussle outside the rapper’s clothing store, where he was trying to improve his community.
Read moreNipsey Hussle, the skilled and respected rapper who earned a Grammy nomination this year for his major-label debut and was greatly respected in South Los Angeles where he grew up, has been shot to death, authorities said. He was 33.
Read moreArt experts in Britain have discovered that a painting long thought to be a fake Sandro Botticelli in fact came from the master’s own Florence workshop.
Read moreA Dutch art detective says he has recovered a valuable painting by Pablo Picasso 20 years after it was stolen from a wealthy Saudi’s yacht in France.
Read moreThe U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene in a copyright dispute involving a 1984 photo of Michael Jordan dunking a basketball in which the photographer claimed Nike ripped him off with its famous “Jumpman” logo.
Read moreWarner Bros. and 50 other record companies brought a federal complaint accusing Charter Communications of “massive copyright infringement committed by thousands of its subscribers.”
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Seventy years after Nazis looted it from Ukraine’s largest art museum as the Soviet tank offensive pushed German occupying forces out of Kiev, a Rococo painting attributed to 18th century painter Pierre Louis Goudreaux surfaced at a New York auction in 2013.
Read moreClaiming that a Harvard scientist exploited her slave ancestors for racist research in the 19th century, a Connecticut woman sued the Ivy League institution for damages Wednesday.
Read moreThe directors of Italy’s premier opera house, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, are meeting to decide whether to accept controversial funding from Saudi Arabia.
Read moreA federal judge has ruled a company’s mashup of “Star Trek” and Dr. Seuss makes fair use of the latter’s “Oh, the Places You’ll Go” – finding against Dr. Seuss Enterprises in its copyright infringement lawsuit.
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