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Graffiti Artists Awarded $6.7 Million for Destroyed 5Pointz Murals
New York Times ^
| February 12, 2018
| ALAN FEUER
Posted on 02/14/2018 6:27:26 AM PST by reaganaut1
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There is no right to vandalize the property of another person, and the Visual Artists Rights Act needs to be changed.
To: reaganaut1
I wonder how the outcome of this would have gone if the graffiti was on the walls of the judge’s gated community?
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:30:23 AM PST
by
null and void
(What do the democrats stand for? Not record low black unemployment...)
To: reaganaut1
Just makes me want to fiddle harder (while Rome burns).
The good news is that the law he “broke” is unconstitutional, assuming he goes to the supreme court. Property rights are almost as important as speech rights.
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:30:26 AM PST
by
robroys woman
(So you're not confused, I'm male.)
To: reaganaut1
Where was the “artists” signed contracts to paint on these buildings? There are no more property rights in the USA. The government does not like private property.
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:32:02 AM PST
by
txrefugee
To: reaganaut1
That which you
thought you owned, you don't
really own.
Not in new York, anyway...
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:32:15 AM PST
by
grobdriver
(BUILD KATE'S WALL!)
To: reaganaut1
Good. Now claw back all that $$$ (pre-tax, of course) and use it to clean the graffiti all over Brooklyn.
Then send the "artists" a bill for the taxes on the $6.7 Million.
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:34:40 AM PST
by
LIConFem
(I will no longer accept the things I cannot change. it's time to change the things I cannot accept.)
To: reaganaut1
So it's no longer your property if it becomes "famous" vandalism? Whose retarded idea was this law?
I'd appeal this.
To: dp0622
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:36:38 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: reaganaut1
Blue state problem, blue city problem.....
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
To: reaganaut1
If this building belonged to the mafia, the outcome would have been different.
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:38:23 AM PST
by
Army Air Corps
(Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
To: reaganaut1
That monstrosity known as the Visual Artist Rights Act was signed into law by President George H. W. Bush. It needs to be repealed pronto!
To: reaganaut1
Does this mean that the NYC Subway system owes gang bangers money when they clean the tags and profanity off the cars?
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:40:29 AM PST
by
nuke_road_warrior
(Making the world safe for nuclear power for over 20 years)
To: reaganaut1
If it were my building I’d paint over the graffiti with brown paint and call it art.
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:41:34 AM PST
by
Varda
(Liberalism IS hate)
To: reaganaut1
Ruling that graffiti a typically transient form of art was of sufficient stature to be protected by the law
Sounds like an Open Invitation to put your “ART” on the Judges House and Fences.
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:41:38 AM PST
by
eyeamok
(Tolerance: The virtue of having a belief in Nothing!)
To: reaganaut1
There is more to this story than what is being reported. My understanding is that this didn’t involve vandalism at all ... and that the property owner agreed to let them paint all this crap on his building.
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:42:06 AM PST
by
Alberta's Child
("Go ahead, bite the Big Apple ... don't mind the maggots.")
To: reaganaut1
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:49:06 AM PST
by
heterosupremacist
(Domine Iesu Christe, Filius Dei, miserere me peccatorem!)
To: grobdriver
Obama already said You didnt build that.
To: reaganaut1
This will not make it past appeal.....................
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:52:47 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
To: Army Air Corps
If this building belonged to the mafia, it would never have been painted.....................
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:53:25 AM PST
by
Red Badger
(Wanna surprise? Google your own name. Wanna have fun? Google your friends names......)
To: reaganaut1
There is no right to vandalize the property of another person, and the Visual Artists Rights Act needs to be changed torn up.
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posted on
02/14/2018 6:55:07 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
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