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ARTICLES, SHORT ESSAYS AND BOOK CHAPTERS


Felicia Caponigri, Contracting and Licensing for Heritage: Lessons from Fashion and Luxury Brands in The Routledge Handbook of Heritage and the Law (Lucas Lixinski, Lucie K. Morisset, eds., Routledge, 2024),  https://www.routledge.com/The-Routledge-Handbook-of-Heritage-and-the-Law/Lixinski-Morisset/p/book/9780367687632


Felicia Caponigri, Auratic IP in a Culture of Copies, JOTWELL (February 8, 2024) (reviewing Stefan Bechtold & Christopher Jon Sprigman, Intellectual Property and the Manufacture of Aura, 36 Harv. J.L. & Tech. 291 (2023)), https://ip.jotwell.com/auratic-ip-in-a-culture-of-copies/


Felicia Caponigri, "Serious Artistic Interest in Michelangelo’s David in Florida and in Florence: A Tale of Art & Cultural Property between Two Places", 2 AEDON 2023, https://aedon.mulino.it/archivio/2023/2/caponigri.htm   


"Fashion Law, Italian Style" Symposium in The Italian Law Journal available here 


Felicia Caponigri, Splitting the atom of heritage to respond to luxury’s challenges and crises, Luxury Studies: The In Pursuit of Luxury Journal, Volume 2, Issue 1-2, Sep 2023, p. 37 - 57, available here


Felicia Caponigri, Archival Authenticity and Intellectual Property Law, Journal of Intellectual Property Law & Practice, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1093/jiplp/jpac105

 

Felicia Caponigri, An Italian Style of Cultural Appropriation? in Notre Dame Journal of International & Comparative Law's Online Symposium Continuing the Conversation: The Law and Ethics of Cultural Appropriation, https://ndjicl.org/symposium-commentaries 

 

Felicia Caponigri, Archival Authenticity or Iconic Copies? Some IP Thoughts on Dolce & Gabbana’s SS23 Collection Curated by Kim Kardashian, and other Fashion Heritage at Fashion Week, TheIPKat, September 30, 2022, https://ipkitten.blogspot.com/2022/09/guest-post-archival-authenticity-or.html  [blog post]

 

Felicia Caponigri, Malleable monuments and comparative cultural property law: The Balbo monument between the United States and Italy, 19(5) INT’L. J. OF CONST. LAW (2022), https://academic.oup.com/icon/article-abstract/19/5/1710/6515706 

 

Felicia Caponigri, Fashion’s Brand Heritage, Cultural Heritage, and “The Piracy Paradox”, 39(2) CARDOZO ARTS & ENT. L. J. (2021), https://cardozoaelj.com/fashions-brand-heritage-cultural-heritage-and-the-piracy-paradox/  

 

Felicia Caponigri, Cultural Heritage Law Between Truth and Power: Law's Evolution and Our Collective Cultural Interest in an Informational Economy, 96 NOTRE DAME L. REV. REFLECTION 163 (2021), https://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndlr_online/vol96/iss4/2 

 

Felicia Caponigri, “Monumenti malleabili”: L’italianità tra il passato, il presente e il futuro oltre l’Atlantico, IRPA (2020), https://www.irpa.eu/monumenti-malleabili-litalianita-tra-il-passato-il-presente-e-il-futuro-oltre-latlantico/ 

 

Felicia Caponigri, Problematizing Fashion’s Legal Categorization as Cultural Property, 2 AEDON (2017), http://www.aedon.mulino.it/archivio/2017/2/caponigri.htm  

 

Felicia Caponigri, The Ethics of the International Display of Fashion in the Museum, 49 THE CASE WESTERN RESERVE J. OF INT’L LAW 135 (2017), http://scholarlycommons.law.case.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2504&context=jil 

 

Felicia Caponigri, Conceptual Separability in Star Athletica, L.L.C. v. Varsity Brands, Inc. et al: “Designs” of Useful Articles as (Non)Copyrightable Subject Matter? (Law and Media Working Paper Series, Paper No. 5, 2017), http://www.medialaws.eu/conceptual-separability-in-star-athletica-l-l-c-v-varsity-brands-inc-et-al-designs-of-useful-articles-as-noncopyrightable-subject-matter-law-and-media-working-paper-series/

 

Felicia Caponigri, Who Owns Villa La Pietra? The Story of A Family, their Home, and an American University under Italian Law," 5(1) NOTRE DAME J. OF INT’L & COMPARATIVE LAW 201 (2015), http://scholarship.law.nd.edu/ndjicl/vol5/iss1/8 

 

EDITORIALS/OP-EDS

Felicia Caponigri & Silvia Segnalini, Le linee guida sul diritto all’immagine dei beni culturali sono fuori dal tempo, Domani​, June 2, 2023, https://www.editorialedomani.it/giustizia/le-linee-guida-sul-diritto-allimmagine-dei-beni-culturali-sono-fuori-dal-tempo-kl4shahp 


Felicia Caponigri & Silvia Segnalini,  Il disastro di “Open to meraviglia” può diventare un buon case study di settore, Domani, May 12, 2023, https://www.editorialedomani.it/giustizia/il-disastro-di-open-to-meraviglia-puo-diventare-un-buon-case-study-di-settore-cou5rwiq 


PH.D. DISSERTATION 

 

Caponigri, Felicia (2019) Fashion design objects as cultural property in Italy and in the United States. Advisor: Casini, Prof. Lorenzo. pp. 412. [IMT PhD Thesis], http://e-theses.imtlucca.it/286/

 

IMPACT OF DR. CAPONIGRI'S SCHOLARLY WORK 

 

Morag M. Kersel & Jack Tessman, What Future for Forgotten Monuments?, July 6, 2022, PUBLIC BOOKS, https://www.publicbooks.org/balbo-monument-chicago-soldier-field/ (citing work on the Balbo Monument)

 

Chicago Monuments Project Final Report, https://chicagomonuments.org  (acknowledging Dr. Caponigri for sharing her research and expertise on the Balbo Monument with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events)


IN THE NEWS


La Voce di New York, Art, Fashion and Law Intertwine at Dunnington’s, April 4, 2023, LA VOCE DI NEW YORK, https://lavocedinewyork.com/en/new-york/2023/04/04/art-fashion-and-law-intertwine-at-dunningtons/ (describing panel participation at the Federal Bar Association’s 2023 Art and Fashion Law Conference)


TFL, Uffizi Wages Legal Battle Against Jean Paul Gaultier Over “Illicit” Use of Botticelli Art, THE FASHION LAW, October 10, 2022, https://www.thefashionlaw.com/uffizi-wages-legal-battle-against-jean-paul-gaultier-over-illicit-use-of-botticelli-art/ (quoted)

 

BBC Newsday, Jean Paul Gaultier facing lawsuit over 'illicit' images, October 12, 2022, https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0d691bz (interviewed)