• stringere@sh.itjust.works
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    20 days ago

    Cool…so it’s ok for businesses to force their ideas, aesthetics, and art on the public because…money?

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      20 days ago

      I think it’s more ownership and permission than money (although unfortunately they often overlap). You’re allowed to paint your own house, but not somebody else’s unless you have permission to do so.

      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
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        20 days ago

        Exactly. You can get a permit to place artwork on public property, but there’s a significant amount of red tape there. You can even be commissioned to place artwork on public property, but that’s pretty niche.

        If you don’t want to deal with that, place your artwork on private property and display it publicly from there.

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      20 days ago

      You should be able to form your arguments about the merits of Banksy’s work and whether or not they commit crimes without pulling in emotional and irrelevant facts like, “I don’t like everything I can see advertized (typically on private property) from public.”

      Look, their whole shtick is that their art is criminal. That’s their fucking gimmick. I don’t know why people are pushing back so hard on this.

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        20 days ago

        The point isnt that it is illegal to do, but the criticism expressed towards many societal issues and capitalism. The fact that it is often done clandestinely is more an indication for a desire for his personal privacy and/or safety I would guess, albeit I admit that it meshes well with the anti system message.

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          It seems hypocritical from my standpoint. He can use private property as much as he wants for his art, but no one can infringe on his god given copyright? He can’t have it both ways, either they are both in the wrong or neither of them are.

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            The problem is this isn’t a person using his art, it’s a company using it to make more money. So in this case he can have it both ways.