![]() Installation” and testified that Meow Wolf “bought much of the materials” she used to create Space Owl, and that the company supplied the funds she used to pay an art assistant for helping with its installation. However, Oliver admitted in court that she received “consideration of monetary value in exchange for the In Oliver’s lawsuit, the artist sued Meow Wolf for $1 million, insisting that she never received any “compensation” for installing ISQ at the HoER. According to Albuquerque Business First, HoER’s first year of revenues were $6.8 million, it welcomed its one-millionth visitor in 2018 and generated $90,000 on its highest-grossing day. That left Oliver out of the financial success of the “wildly successful” HoER, which had become a “multimillion-dollar enterprise”. Oliver’s lawsuit alleged Meow Wolf’s artist revenue share shifted to a ‘bonus program’, “amounting to Kadlubek making personal, arbitrary decisions about who got what.” According to the Art Newspaper, “Kadlubek gave Oliver the option of selling all the rights to the Space Owl or removing the entire ISQ installation without additional compensation.” The accusation from Oliver that Meow Wolf violated her IP rights was sparked by the artist observing images of Space Owl in books sold at the HoER’s gift shop and in the documentary. According to The Art Newspaper, the company also offered Oliver a $10,000 “revenue share stipend”, which founder Sean Di Ianni later described as “essentially a verbal commitment to artists to pay out a portion of our revenue to artists after we reach a certain revenue trigger,” according to court documents. 25.Īn initial email said Oliver would retain all intellectual property (IP) rights, but Meow Wolf would own the final work made by the artist. ![]() This included the art collective’s “self-made puff-piece documentary” and an image used to represent Meow Wolf in the Artnet story “ The 100 Defining Works of the Decade” which featured the company as No. In March 2020, Oliver filed her original complaint against the company, accusing Meow Wolf of copyright infringement and violation of the Visual Artists Rights Act (VARA), along with other claims, for using images of Space Owl to market and promote HoER. According to court documents, Judge Kirtan Khalsa of the New Mexico District Court found that Meow Wolf “holds an implied, irrevocable, nonexclusive license to use images of ISQ to market and promote the HoER for the first ten years of its operation.” However, Judge Khalsa also found “there is a genuine issue of material fact regarding whether the license allows such uses under narrative titles other than “Ice Station Quellette”.
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