French Court Upholds Plagiarism Ruling Against Jeff Koons, Centre Pompidou

Over the past couple decades, Jeff Koons has been the subject of several plagiarism lawsuits, which have often ended with the appropriation-minded artist paying out damages. Now, following an appeal, yet another suit has concluded with Koons being held responsible for plagiarizing an image from another artist’s work.
An appeals court in Paris ruled last week that Koons’s 1988 sculpture Naked plagiarized an image taken from a photograph of two nude children taken by Jean-Franço