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"textContent": "\n\nThe 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 \n\nThe post The Mondrian estate is threatening people over a public domain painting appeared first on Boing Boing.",
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