Directive 2014/60/EU and Good Faith Acquisition of Cultural Goods in Italy
abstract
The international financial crisis seems to have no effect on global art market; as the TEFAF Report demonstrates art market has grown exponentially in the last ten years. The increasing economic value of this market attracts criminal organisations and it happens quite often that cultural property is object of illicit trade. For this reason, it seems interesting to focus the study on the international provisions regulating the duty to return stolen or illicit exported cultural property and their effects (if any) on the Italian rule protecting the bona fide purchaser also in case of stolen goods.
Keywords: Bona fide purchaser • International art market • Commons
permalink: http://doi.org/10.14277/6969-052-5/SE-4-16