A Paris court issued an order Thursday (1/28) for Eric Clapton to pay the family of the artist that painted the Derek & The Dominos cover art $16,500 for having altered the work for the 2011 collector's edition reissue of the album containing the epic love song Layla. Emile Frandsen, the French-Danish painter of the album art, died before the original album's release in November of 1970. The 2011 re-release included a multi dimensional version of the painting that had been given to the guitarist by the son of the painter in the months before the double album was released. In reaching its decision, the court concluded that the alteration amounted to a 'clear distortion of Emile Frandsen's work', however, it also rejected an attempt by family of the late artist to get a ruling that it was entitled to receive money for the use of the painting known as Young Gril With Bouquet (La Jeune Fille au Bouquet) on the original album cover.
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