2nd Circuit: Sculptor Should Have Found Alleged Infringement Of Snake Piece

( July 24, 2026, 7:31 AM EDT) -- NEW YORK — An artist who created a Styrofoam sculpture of a snake for an Italian adult film star and politician should have discovered the sculpture’s use in another artist’s works featuring the pornographic actress created in the late 1980s and early 1990s long before the filing of a 2021 suit, a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel found, upholding a New York federal judge’s finding that the plaintiff-appellant’s claims were time-barred....