{"id":31047,"date":"2018-12-07T16:51:50","date_gmt":"2018-12-07T21:51:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=31047"},"modified":"2019-02-28T07:06:06","modified_gmt":"2019-02-28T12:06:06","slug":"koons-the-king-of-plagiarism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2018\/12\/koons-the-king-of-plagiarism\/","title":{"rendered":"Koons &#8211; The King Of Plagiarism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Plagiarism\u2026 a word that haunts us throughout our education.\u00a0 If anything you submit to the teacher closely resembles the words or work of another writer, not only did you likely get an \u201cF\u2019, but there was the threat of being kicked out of your University.<\/p>\n<p>The same thing applies\u2026well, kind of\u2026 to the arts.\u00a0 Jeff Koons, who I\u2019ve now dubbed the <em>King of Plagiarism,<\/em> has been found guilty of copyright infringement\u2026aka, plagiarism, yet again.<\/p>\n<p>Back in 2015, I wrote about (see below) the French clothing brand Naf Naf suing Koons over his 1988 statue \u201cFait d\u2019Hiver\u201d which has a striking resemblance to the companies 1985 advertisement titled\u2026.\u201dFait d\u2019hiver.\u201d\u00a0 I could go on and discuss the similarities, but as they say, a picture(s) is worth a thousand words:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-31048 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/Koons-Fait-dHiver-1988-300x177.jpg\" alt=\"Koons-Fait-dHiver-1988-300x177\" width=\"337\" height=\"199\" \/> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-31049\" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/pub_naf_naf-300x211.jpg\" alt=\"pub_naf_naf-300x211\" width=\"336\" height=\"236\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Four years later, the court ruled in favor of Naf Naf and ordered Koons, his company Jeff Koons L.L.C. (because we all know he has a warehouse of artists building his oeuvre), the Pompidou Center (where the work was exhibited for the Venice Biennale in 2011), and a book publisher to pay Mr. Davidovici (Owner of Naf Naf) $170,000.\u00a0 A small price to pay considering the work sold in 2007 to the Prada Foundation for $4 million.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Previous Post<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/newsletterarchives.htm?newsletter_no=181\">Comments on the Art Market<\/a>,\u00a0Volume 170 &#8211; February 2015 \u2013 <em>Tales from the Dark Side<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Franck Davidovici &#8211; has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against American artist, Jeff Koons.\u00a0 This is the third case brought against the artist claiming his works from his Banality series were plagiarized from other artists.\u00a0 According to Davidovici, his advertisement for the French clothing company Naf Naf in 1980 featuring a woman laying on her back in the snow with a small pig was recreated by Koons as a porcelain 1988 artwork of Ilona Saller (an Italian porn star) laying in the snow with a small pig approaching her. \u00a0 Davidovici demands that the work be confiscated and any and all funds ever generated from the work, as well as $300,000 in damages, be paid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plagiarism\u2026 a word that haunts us throughout our education.\u00a0 If anything you submit to the teacher closely resembles the words or work of another writer, not only did you likely get an \u201cF\u2019, but there was the threat of being &hellip; 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