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Here's why grafitti artists are scary to agencies

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YadaYadaYada:
http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-ny-graffiti-artists-settlement-20180212-story.html

Judge awards graffiti artists $6.7 million after their New York works were destroyed

Best part is the building owner, who painted over the works and tore down the buildings was the defendant. This is going to be appealed of course, but shows how dumb things can be. Who wants to defend against a lawsuit from an artist or a vandal? Some of these people had permission to paint on the buildings.

Bigger issue, is graffiti protected under federal law?

Shelma1:
This is an unusual case. According to the article, the building owner had given permission to the artists, the art was so good the buildings became a tourist attraction, and it would have been possible to salvage a lot of the art if the building owner had given the artists the opportunity to do so.

Also, it sounds like the art may have helped with the gentrification of the neighborhood, which is what made the building site so valuable to the owner.

StockbyNumbers:

--- Quote from: Shelma1 on February 13, 2018, 11:06 ---This is an unusual case. According to the article, the building owner had given permission to the artists, the art was so good the buildings became a tourist attraction, and it would have been possible to salvage a lot of the art if the building owner had given the artists the opportunity to do so.

Also, it sounds like the art may have helped with the gentrification of the neighborhood, which is what made the building site so valuable to the owner.

--- End quote ---

Agreed that it is an unusual case and seemed to hinge partially on whether or not the building owner knowingly exploited the artists. I do think this will make agencies more cautious though as it creates ambiguity and muddies the waters.

JimP:
Oh please stop the bull crap. The guy owns the building, the art is allowed but then he wanted to tear down his building. Now the taggers claim it's art and protected. So I call a drawing on the sidewalk art and no one can erase it?

cobalt:

--- Quote from: JimP on February 13, 2018, 22:43 ---Oh please stop the bull crap. The guy owns the building, the art is allowed but then he wanted to tear down his building. Now the taggers claim it's art and protected. So I call a drawing on the sidewalk art and no one can erase it?

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If you give permission as the owner, then that might be the case, yes.

He could have easily given them a chance to remove the artwork before tearing the building down.

he owns the wall, but not the art itself, so in this special case it makes sense.

But this does not mean, that you can place graffiti anywhere and then "own" the wall or the building.

In this case there was consent, and the art raised the value of the location, so this is different.

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