Florence court OKs image rights for works of art

(ANSA) - ROME, MAY 15 - A Florence court on Monday upheld the image rights of works of art in a sentence on Michelangelo's David after a top publishing house used an image of the iconic Renaissance statue for advertising purposes on the cover of one of its magazine.
    In a ruling on the masterpiece, the Court of Florence recognised the existence of the right to the image of cultural property, announced the Galleria dell'Accademia, which houses the work that attracts millions of visitors a year.
    The Accademia brought the case after "a famous publishing house, without the concession to use the image of the David and without paying any fee, published on the cover of one of its magazines the sculpture modified with the 'lenticular cartotecnica' mechanism and therefore superimposed on the image of a model, all in an openly advertising key". The Florentine museum said it was the "first judgement of merit" of this kind. (ANSA).