The building owner sued for $ 6.7 million for the destruction of valuable graffiti
ARTinvestment.RU   14 февраля 2018

Precedent in new-йоркском court puts in a new plane of relationships between owners of property and of authors of works of street art on objects

for the First time the court gave the copyright of street artists above the rights of the owner of the immovable property. Brooklyn judge Frederic Block (Frederic Block) ruled that Jerry Wolkoff (Wolkoff Jerry) — owner of the 5Pointz building complex in long-Айленде — did not have the right in 2013 to destroy covering buildings with graffiti. This place, in the words of advocate artists, was "the largest Museum in the world of graffiti under the open sky". According to the court, several dozen images had sufficient artistic value in order to fall under the protection of American rights Act figures of fine arts (Visual Artists Rights Act — V. A. R. A.). The judge ruled that the owner of the buildings, Jerry Wolkoff must pay compensation in the amount of $6.7 million 21 the author of the graffiti at 5Pointz buildings, whose works were destroyed.

the Case of 5Pointz was the first time that street artists have defended in a dispute with the owner of the Visual Artists Rights Act. But this is not the first time the authors of the graffiti decided through the courts to protect their intellectual property. Basically we are talking about misuse of their images fashion brands, designers, etc.

In 2014, the artist Ahol Sniffs Glue was suing the brand American Eagle, which used his picture "Lazy eye" on the building in Miami for the international advertising campaign of their clothes. In 2015 Joseph Tierney has filed a lawsuit against the company Moschino Navy graffiti print for several models of clothes (in one of these dresses walked the red carpet at the ball at the Metropolitan Museum, the singer Katy Perry). And in 2016, a street artist Jamie hef tried to sue the singer Kazu for filming the clip Hideaway on the background of his graffiti. So, with all of the fragility of graffiti as an art form, the authors are quite constant in terms of protecting their copyrights.

Sources: nytimes.com, artinvestment.ru



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