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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