In the article “Framed and Hung,” published by Intellectual Property Magazine, Partner Eugene Rome discusses the partnerships between artists and galleries, and how knowledge of intellectual property principles are crucial to creating fair operating agreements.

A common assumption is that the images created by artists automatically belong to them; however, the rights to images created during a partnership technically belong to the LLC, meaning that artists have to buy back the rights to their own images in order to reproduce them. The full article can be read here: Intellectual Property Magazine.