WAS THAT REASONABLY NECESSARY? It’s a question asked every day in law schools and courthouses. Less so in MFA programs, artist studios, and museum acquisition committee meetings. Imagine counsel standing just behind Andy Warhol in the Factory, asking, “Does it need to be Brillo? What if you just did up your own soap box?” Or envision MoMA turning down a trove of Pictures generation works because legal has questions, not about provenance, but about copyright permission. We might be headed in this direction, now that the Supreme Court has injected a reasonable necessity standard into transformative
Lauder, 78, donated $11 million to Republican candidate Zeldin s New York governor campaign, but Kathy Hochul dramatically held the post after a bitter election focused on soaring crime.
Ronald Lauder, 78, the billionaire heir of Estee-Lauder has donated $11 million to the New York gubernatorial campaign of Republican Representative Lee Zeldin.