Legal history could be made in a wrangle which is putting spots before the eyes of intellectual property lawyers and which could potentially knock the bottom out of the lucrative market of conceptual art. Damien Hirst is suing British Airways, claiming it based its spotted billboard advert for its low cost airline Go on one of his spot paintings. Meanwhile, restaurateur Marco Pierre White is accusing Hirst of plagiarising a dot painting which he made to decorate his Soho restaurant, Quo Vadis.
DAC tests potential partners
Davies Arnold Cooper is putting potential new partners through rigorous psychological tests to see if they are up to the job. The firm’s managing director, Nick Sinfield, admits he cannot be certain of spotting partners of the future. Instead candidates are subjected to days of extensive psychological testing to see if they have the right […]