Rodin gave all his works and reproduction rights to France in 1916, and the Musee Rodin spent 18 years in court over about 1,700 casts it called fakes

In 1916, the year before his death, Auguste Rodin gave the French state all his plaster, marble, bronze and stone works, his drawings, his antiquities and his intellectual property rights. The Musee Rodin oversees production of original bronzes from the molds he left. That control drew forgers. Guy Hain, a French dealer, was arrested by Dijon police in January 1992 and about twenty metric tons of bronzes were seized from foundries in Burgundy and Paris. An expert estimated over 6,000 more copies existed beyond those seized. In June 1997 he was sentenced to four years and served about 18 months; ARTnews reported a 2001 appeal sentence in Besancon of four years and a fine of 2 million francs^†. The Musee Rodin filed a separate complaint in 2001. In April 2019 a Paris appeals court gave US dealer Gary Snell a one-year suspended sentence and a 15,000 euro fine for counterfeiting. It found he had roughly 1,700 bronzes cast in Vicenza, using molds sold by Paris dealer Robert Crouzet, who received a four-month suspended sentence. Prosecutors put the total value at 68 million euros. Snell's liquidated company and Crouzet were ordered to pay the museum 500,000 euros. The ruling could still be appealed.