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Cindy Hill, Esq. - Fine Art Registry™ Columnist
Writer & AttorneyAttorney Cindy Hill has practiced law since 1988. Licensed to practice in Massachusetts and Vermont state and federal courts, the First and Second Circuits, and the U.S. Supreme Court, Attorney Hill has taught Constitutional Law and Criminal Law at several undergraduate institutions, and most recently, a course on Civil Liberties and the Patriot Act at Middlebury College. Hill’s legal work has won awards including the Vermont Law School’s prestigious "Student Inspiration Award," for being the lawyer “whose dedication to the common good most inspires confidence in the students that an individual’s ideas can shape the future of law and society.” Hill writes the Legalities column for the award winning monthly publication "Vermont Woman." She is the author of "Creative Lawyering," (Xlibris 2005, www.xlibris.com/creativelawyering.html), as well as several other books on legal matters. Also an award winning poet and fiction writer as well as a musician, fiber-artist, and art collector, Hill has a keen interest in intellectual property rights as they relate to works in many fields of creative art.
Article List
June 4, 2008:
Celebrity Likenesses in Fine Art
Can I paint a picture of Pierce Brosnan? Given my dubious painting skills, the practical answer is a resounding No. But let’s pretend that I actually had the technical ability to paint such... Read More
May 22, 2007:
Native American Art and Artifacts
Many an American kid has run, full of anticipation, into a newly plowed spring field, muddy sneakers sinking into the airy fresh-turned soil, eyes keenly tuned for that glint in the sun that spea... Read More
January 18, 2007:
Internet Image Theft
An artist I know walked into a large chain craft store a year or two ago, and stopped dead in her tracks. There before her, laid out over and over like so many television screens on the wall of a... Read More
December 26, 2006:
Dangerous Arts, Part II: Read the Label
While ’doing art’ seems like a perfectly benign activity, the components of art materials include a frightening array of potentially hazardous elements. Paint pigments can include lead, cobalt... Read More
December 26, 2006:
Dangerous Arts, Part I: Hazards in the Studio
While the creation of art is usually perceived as being culturally beneficent, making art is fraught with hazards to the health of the artist and anyone else working in a studio, as well as to th... Read More
September 29, 2006:
Copyright and the Rights of Models
In 1985, a young woman from Afghanistan stared out at us from the cover of National Geographic, her green wolf-eyes piercing into our souls in a disturbing and unforgettable manner... Read More
August 22, 2006:
Commissions and Work for Hire
My Irish pub band has been doing pretty well, and as the unofficial booking agent/promoter/p.r. chick of the group, I’ve decided that we need a real logo to improve our ‘branding’. I know just ex... Read More
August 16, 2006:
Copyright and Moral Rights Enforcement
I am a victim of copyright infringement. I volunteered to create a pen-and-ink holiday card design for a non-profit organization. The year after we’d sent out the cards, I received two other... Read More
May 30, 2006:
Limits to Copyright: Time and Borders
Copyright laws strike a balance between the artist’s rights and the public’s interest in works that have historical significance by placing time limits on how long a copyright lasts. Once copyrig... Read More
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