{"id":25564,"date":"2011-03-10T13:00:07","date_gmt":"2011-03-10T13:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-the-artist-jeff-koons-who-constructed-a\/"},"modified":"2011-03-10T13:00:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-10T13:00:07","slug":"but-the-artist-jeff-koons-who-constructed-a","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/but-the-artist-jeff-koons-who-constructed-a\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>But the artist Jeff Koons, who constructed a 10-foot tall \u201cBalloon Dog\u201d that has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and elsewhere, sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Canadian manufacturer and San Francisco gallery for producing and selling \u201cBalloon Dog\u201d bookends. Now the gallery, Park Life, has asked a federal court for a declaratory judgment that states the canine shape cannot be copyrighted, according to Courthouse News Service. \u201cAs virtually any clown can attest, no one owns the idea of making a balloon dog, and the shape created by twisting a balloon into a dog-like form is part of the public domain,\u201d the gallery says in its federal complaint.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'><a href=\"http:\/\/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com\/2011\/01\/21\/gallery-challenges-jeff-koons-balloon-dog-claim\/\">Gallery Challenges Jeff Koons&rsquo;s Balloon Dog Claim &#8211; NYTimes.com<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But the artist Jeff Koons, who constructed a 10-foot tall \u201cBalloon Dog\u201d that has been exhibited in the Metropolitan Museum of Art and elsewhere, sent a cease-and-desist letter to a Canadian manufacturer and San Francisco gallery for producing and selling \u201cBalloon Dog\u201d bookends. Now the gallery, Park Life, has asked a federal court for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-words","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-6Ek","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25564","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25564"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25564\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}