ArtClaim — new database of lost, stolen and controversial works of art
ARTinvestment.RU   19 января 2015

Today started working a new website www.artclaim.com from the former Director of the Art Loss Register Christopher Marinello. The new database has the function of image recognition and more than 500 data fields on each job

today launched its new database is missing, stolen and controversial works of art - ArtClaim Database (website www.artclaim.com). This new project is the brainchild of Christopher Marinello (Christopher Marinello), former Director and General counsel of the most extensive to date database of stolen art Loss Register. After seven years of work in the ALR (2006 and 2013), Marinello in 2013 he started his own company Art Recovery Group and then spent a year and a half and 250 thousand pounds on the development of a fundamentally new product database ArtClaim. The Creator of a new base hopes to compete with the giant Art Loss Register, which is the data about 400 thousand works, and in the future even surpass ALR.

"first, we listened to all the participants of the art market: law enforcement, insurers, art dealers, collectors, auctioneers and lawyers," says Marinelli. With particular enthusiasm responded representatives of the divisions of the Italian carabinieri, dealing with the search for works of art, as well as the French police and the FBI. Listening to their advice, Marinello equipped with a base ArtClaim sophisticated computer program image recognition. This technology is applied for the first time. The program LTU Technologies analyzes the visual content and maps available in the database image with photos of objects that provides the user base. In addition, for each object in the database has more than 500 data fields, which can lead proverka@

Using base ArtClaim, potential buyers of works of art can be sure that it was not stolen, not in the search and is not the subject of mortgage from the financial institution, or other entity. The last point is particularly relevant if to recollect fact well-known swindler Lawrence Selender, selling the same work or ownership interest in the work of several clients. In the case of such kind of fraud victims is very difficult to get compensation in court, because in one and the same work goes a few Iskov@

Firm Chris Marinello of the Art Recovery International, in addition to providing information about jobs through the base ArtClaim, provides its clients with assistance in their return and in the resolution of legal disputes. The Creator promises to act only within the law - "no ransom to the kidnappers or the buyers of stolen goods". In the first month of the base ArtClaim all services will be provided free of charge. In the following months to pay only those checks. To report the missing item is always free. Now the database is filled up to 5 thousand works on a weekly basis, and employees ArtClaim have access to databases Interpol@

the Material was prepared by Maria Onuchin, AI

Sources: artclaim.com, artnet.com, ft.com, artinvestment.ru