The Mondrian estate is threatening people over a public domain painting

The Mondrian/Holtzman Trust has a creative legal theory: a 147-year-old Spanish statute and a Spanish Supreme Court ruling should govern the copyright status of a Dutch painter's work in the United States. That's what the Trust told an art magazine when asked about Piet Mondrian's Composition II with Red, Blue, and Yellow , which became free to use on January 1, 2026, as Copyright Lately reports. — Read the rest

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