Civil Court Rules Against Unlicensed Uses of Image of Statue of David

November 28th, 2017

A civil court in Florence this week ruled against a tourist agency, ordering it to remove images of the Michelangelo’s Statue of David because of copyright infringement.  Claiming that Galleria dell’Accademia holds exclusive rights to license and distribute images of the statue.  “Now many other museums who have been victims of the plague of tickets sold at inflated prices can take this path to defeat this scam,” says gallery director Cecilie Hollberg.

Read more at The Guardian