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The court said that museums sell goods which generally replicate the art they display, "thus enabling the museum to distribute art in a common and ordinary form that can be appreciated in everyday life." The fact that the art might be reproduced in formats and quantities that sell for modest sums "makes the art popular," but does not change its First Amendment protection, the court concluded (The Art Newspaper on a case against artist Barbara Kruger for her   appropriation of a 1960 photo, and against the Whitney Museum and LA MoCA for selling merchandising reproducing the offending image).