{"id":47694,"date":"2023-06-15T21:35:07","date_gmt":"2023-06-16T01:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/?p=47694"},"modified":"2023-06-15T21:35:40","modified_gmt":"2023-06-16T01:35:40","slug":"a-totally-bananas-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/06\/a-totally-bananas-lawsuit\/","title":{"rendered":"A Totally Bananas Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_47695\" style=\"width: 254px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-14-at-11.50.53-AM.png\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47695\" class=\"wp-image-47695 \" src=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-14-at-11.50.53-AM-300x216.png\" alt=\"A work on the left made of an orange an a banana adhered with silver duct tape to green panels. Meanwhile, the work on the right is made of a banana taped to a white wall.\" width=\"244\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-14-at-11.50.53-AM-300x216.png 300w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-14-at-11.50.53-AM-1024x736.png 1024w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-14-at-11.50.53-AM-768x552.png 768w, https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/06\/Screenshot-2023-06-14-at-11.50.53-AM.png 1332w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 244px) 100vw, 244px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-47695\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the left, <em>Banana &amp; Orange<\/em> by Joe Morford; and on the right, <em>Comedian<\/em> by Maurizio Cattelan (photo courtesy of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida)<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Not long ago, I wrote about Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s absurdist conceptual work <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comedian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, consisting of a banana duct taped to a wall. Upon seeing a licensed version of the work displayed at the Leeum Museum in South Korea, one visitor decided to <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/rehs.com\/eng\/2023\/05\/going-bananas-artwork-eaten-by-museum-visitor\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">remove the tape and eat the banana<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> while his friend recorded the incident on his phone. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comedian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, in a way, is meant to be provocative, but one artist may have taken things a little too seriously. In 2020, the American artist Joe Morford sued Cattelan, alleging that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comedian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> was a copy of his 2002 work <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/images.fineartamerica.com\/images\/artworkimages\/mediumlarge\/3\/banana-and-orange-joe-morford.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banana &amp; Orange<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, consisting of plastic replicas of the titular fruits duct taped to green panels. Cattelan, however, claims that he had not even heard of Morford before the lawsuit and had independently thought of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comedian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as a concept as early as 2018. Cattelan\u2019s studio assistant verified this claim in court.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to Morford, Cattelan clearly plagiarized his work because of the availability of images of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banana &amp; Orange<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> online and composition similarities. Morford posted photos of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banana &amp; Orange<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on several online platforms, including Facebook, Blogspot, and YouTube. Therefore, Morford claims that this proves that Cattelan could view the work and steal its concept. Furthermore, he claimed that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comedian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banana &amp; Orange<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> are so similar that it is likely that Cattelan\u2019s work was heavily influenced by or stolen from Morford.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Judge Robert Scola of the District Court for the Southern District of Florida granted summary judgment in favor of Cattelan, thereby dismissing Morford\u2019s case. On Morford\u2019s first argument, Scola wrote that just because images of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banana &amp; Orange<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> were available online, that does not indicate that Cattelan viewed these images; or that \u201cmere availability, and therefore possibility of access, is insufficient to prove access.\u201d Regarding the similarities between <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banana &amp; Orange<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comedian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, Scola found that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comedian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> does not constitute plagiarism because \u201cthere are only so many ways to express the concept of a banana taped to a wall.\u201d Morford alleged that placing the tape perpendicularly to the banana was one of the elements Cattelan copied from <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banana &amp; Orange<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. But according to Scola, this is the rather obvious way to execute the work. \u201cPlacing the tape parallel with the banana would cover it. Placing more than one piece of tape over the banana, at any angle, would necessarily obscure it. An artist seeking to tape a banana (or really, any oblong fruit or other household object) to a wall is therefore left with \u2018only a few ways of visually presenting the idea\u2019 \u2014 all of which involve a piece of tape crossing the banana at some non-parallel angle.\u201d The court did, however, find that there were protected elements of Morford\u2019s work, such as the green panels, the use of an orange, and the use of masking tape to hang the panels onto a wall. But none of these elements are present in <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comedian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. Morford even went as far as to say that both bananas were placed at similar angles, indicating possible plagiarism. To this, Scola responded, \u201cThere are only so many angles at which a banana can be placed on a wall (360, to be precise, unless one breaks the measurements down beyond degrees\u2014but making such a minute distinction would be reaching a point of absurdity best left out of the courts and in the hands of artists).\u201d So, it seems \u2018close enough\u2019 doesn\u2019t really cut it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The court found that <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Comedian<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is not a copy or plagiarized version of <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banana &amp; Orange<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, but rather the two are different expressions of the same idea. When you break down each work into its component parts, they are quite different. So, an artist cannot own and claim copyright over the idea of taping a banana to a wall. The art world can breathe a sigh of relief.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not long ago, I wrote about Maurizio Cattelan\u2019s absurdist conceptual work Comedian, consisting of a banana duct taped to a wall. 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