Intellectual Property Law

New Matter 2018 SUMMER Volume 43, Number 2

IP and Art: An International Perspective

Cristina Manasse

Manasse Studio Legale, Milan, Italy

A PAINTING BASED ON A PHOTO IS NOT INFRINGING – THE SWEDISH SCAPEGOATS CASE

Once again, a European court dealt with a lawsuit for copyright infringement and appropriation in relation to a painting and a photograph.1 This time it was the Supreme Court of Sweden that weighed in on this issue. And it all came down to a goat.2 Well, at least the meaning of including a goat in a painting.

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