Thursday, May 31, 2007
Ben Wicks Art to be Returned
:: Posted by Bryan @ 5/31/2007 06:00:00 AM Wicks Trial Verdict
In what the Toronto Star is calling a legal precedent for the protection of artists' works, Superior Court Judge Thomas Lederer ruled yesterday that Richard Harnett is not the legal owner of over 2800 cartoons left behind by the son of cartoonist Ben Wicks.
As Sequential reported almost two weeks ago, the long-simmering case that the Wicks estate launched against Harnett several years ago when the existence of the cartoon hoard became known finally reached Superior Court in Toronto. After a week of testimony, the judge retired to write up his 11-page report, framing a verdict that seems in retrospect inevitable. In his judgement he has ordered that the artwork in Harnett's possession, found in several garbage bags when Wicks' son Vincent Wicks moved from Toronto to B.C. in 1992, be returned to the Wicks family and that $450 Harnett made selling two of the drawings also be remitted.
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(The Halifax Chronicle-Herald has the CP version of the verdict)Labels: copyright, creator's rights, legal news
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