“This is not a copyright manner, as such, these works are long out of copyright,” said Christine Steiner, an art law attorney and professor at LMU Loyola Law School, in an email to the Observer. “It’s a patrimony issue, Italian laws authorize the museums to protect the merchandising of the works in the collections.”
Source: New York Observer
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