Help me out because I’m dense. Why can’t the property owner just paint over it?
Past case had graffiti artists suing the owner of the building for destroying their “art”, and winning
https://nypost.com/2018/02/12/developer-must-pay-6-7m-for-destroying-iconic-graffiti-art/amp/
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visual_Artists_Rights_Act