Murals and VARA Rights

Permanent Concealment and the Visual Artist Rights Act of 1990

VARA, 17 U.S.C. § 106A, 113(d), was enacted as an amendment to the U.S. Copyright Act to provide creators of visual art with waivable, but non- ...

Visual Artists Rights Act Does Not Prohibit Covering Murals

The US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed that the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA) does not prohibit covering an ...

Painting over Property Rights: The Effect of the Visual Artists Rights ...

VARA protects a “work of visual art”, which is defined as a painting, drawing, print, sculpture or still photograph. It must be signed by the ...

Wisconsin Murals and Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990

At the beginning of my interviews with muralists and entities, I asked if they had heard of VARA. VARA stands for Visual Artists Rights Act.

Waiver of Moral Rights in Visual Artworks - U.S. Copyright Office

In 1990, Congress for the first time legislated limited moral rights of attribution and integrity to authors of narrowly defined works of visual arts.

Has a US law created to safeguard artists' work backfired?

Yet Judge Locher rejected the Vara claim based on his conclusion that the installation does not fit within the law's definition of art as “a ...

"A Potential Status Update for the Visual Artists Rights Act: The Role ...

The Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (“VARA”) grants visual artists the right “to prevent any destruction of a work of recognized stature.” In February 2020, ...

The Legal Protection of Street Art under VARA

Street artists are entitled to protect their work against misappropriations and or unlawful destruction. These rights are often known as Moral Rights.

Reconciling VARA, the AWCPA, and Copyright Fundamentals by ...

This article focuses on how the Copyright Act's protection of artists' rights in their works of visual art on buildings under the Visual Artists Rights Act ( ...

How Can Mural Artists Take Steps to Protect Their Legal Rights?

One of the best-known VARA cases involved a group of graffiti artists who won a $6.7 million judgement after suing a developer who whitewashed ...

Mural Ordinance: Why VARA? Why Digital Murals? Suzanne Lacy's ...

VARA allows for property owners to remove artworks before the 5-year requirement, so long as artists are given 90 days to respond. The city can mitigate ...

VARA | HHR Art Law

VARA was the first federal copyright legislation to grant protection to moral rights. Under VARA, works of art that meet certain requirements afford their ...

VARA and Mural Art: Courts Countenance Concealment

As the Kerson court notes, there is no artists' right to the presentation or display of their works under VARA, and the owner of a VARA- ...

Temporary Murals Have Permanent Rights?

G&M Realty L.P., this work may be protected by the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA). ... The Second Circuit held that VARA, which grants ...

Second Circuit: VARA Permits Building Owner To Hide Visual Art

Being a law school, though – there were plenty of experts around to advise that merely painting over the murals would violate Kerson's rights ...

New York Appeals Court Rejects Visual Artist's Claim Based on ...

When the Law School decided to permanently conceal the murals, the artist sued under the Visual Artists Rights Act (“VARA”), which allows living ...

"Reforming the Visual Artists Rights Act to Protect #streetart in the D ...

When Congress drafted and enacted VARA, neither large-scale mural projects nor social media were prevalent in the United States. This Note ...

Why the Visual Artists Rights Act Is Failing | Artsy

VARA doesn't force owners to keep art indefinitely. It only requires them to give artists 90 days' notice of their intentions so the artists can ...

Second judge rules that Vermont Law School did not violate artist's ...

“To this end, authors of qualifying works of visual art may invoke VARA to prevent the modification and destruction of their art, albeit with ...

Street Art and VARA: The Intersection of Copyright and Real Estate

To be covered by VARA, a work of visual art must also be protected by copyright. Thus, works must be original and “fixed in any tangible medium of expression …