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BLANCH v. KOONS

Docket No. 05-6433-CV.

467 F.3d 244 (2006)

Andrea BLANCH, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Jeff KOONS, the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, and Deutsche Bank AG, Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Second Circuit.

Decided: October 26, 2006.

As Amended November 16, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert W. Cinque, Cinque & Cinque, P.C. (James P. Cinque, of counsel) New York, NY, for Plaintiff-Appellant.

John B. Koegel, The Koegel Group, New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Jeff Koons.

Lawrence B. Friedman, Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP (Inna Reznik, Hoon-Jung Kim, of counsel) New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

Carol A. Witschel, White & Case LLP (Steven Betensky, Stefan M. Mentzer, of counsel), New York, NY, for Defendant-Appellee Deutsche Bank AG.

Before: SACK and KATZMANN, Circuit Judges, and MURTHA, District Judge. Judge KATZMANN concurs in a separate opinion.

SACK, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question whether an artist's appropriation of a copyrighted image in a collage painting is, under the circumstances, protected "fair use" under the copyright law. See 17 U.S.C. § 107.

On commission from defendants Deutsche Bank AG, a German corporation ("Deutsche Bank"), and The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, a New York not-for-profit corporation ("Guggenheim"), defendant Jeff Koons created a collage...

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