I'm impressed. Give the man some points for his actions. Or at least a beer.
Banksy denies Banksy impostor's claim to Banksy.com – which isn't owned by Banksy
Street artist Banksy is renowned for satirizing society through the unexpected, and a battle over his namesake dot-com domain seems to have provided him with another opportunity. We reported earlier this month that the anonymous artists appeared to have gone corporate, filing a trademark infringement case against the owner of …
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Thursday 30th October 2014 10:05 GMT Just Enough
So what?
Banksy is free to enforce his trademark to any extent he wishes.
But I don't follow why everyone is getting a damp patch about his choice to not enforce it. All he's done here is give one imposter the nod over another. I'm happy for him to have that choice, but why should I be excited about it?
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Thursday 30th October 2014 11:31 GMT Nigel 11
Re: FUCKIN VANDAL
I once saw a plonker yelling at some kids who were drawing with chalk on the footpath outside their house
Could have been worse. There is a student who got a criminal conviction for drawing (well, writing) with chalk, at a demo. The college claimed, on oath, that it needed tens of thousands of pounds worth of specialist stone remediation teatment to get the chalk off. Most think that a bucket of water and a sponge would have sufficed, and that it's the college authorities that ought to have received a criminal conviction for their wanton waste of public money, to say nothing of ruining a young person's future.
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Thursday 30th October 2014 10:52 GMT Intractable Potsherd
Re: FUCKIN VANDAL
Good street art makes an area look better. At least some of Banksy's stuff falls into that category, so I have very little problem. Inane "tagging" - the human equivalent of dogs pissing up a tree-trunk - and really poor pictures make an area look worse - much worse. Kids drawing on the pavement is so far beneath anyone's notice that I would suspect the shouty person is not entirely well.
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Thursday 30th October 2014 11:06 GMT mark 63
the human equivalent of dogs pissing up a tree-trunk
Spot on Potsherd. Some graffitti (er , i mean street art or whatever) is really cool but Its amazing how shit 99% of it is. Just a "tag". Its like theyve tried really hard to ensure that there is nothing artistic , intresting or aesthetic about it at all.
Even the murals in Northern Ireland look like a 6 year olds art class fridge picture.
I noticed other countries have a far better standard of Street vandalism.
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Thursday 30th October 2014 16:49 GMT asdf
Re: the human equivalent of dogs pissing up a tree-trunk
>Even the murals in Northern Ireland look like a 6 year olds art class fridge picture.
>I noticed other countries have a far better standard of Street vandalism.
Here in the southwestern US if you want really good street art you go into the Hispanic barrios often for some gorgeous murals. Of course as dangerous as that may be its generally even more dangerous to go to the other great place for street art which is in the concrete arroyos (flash floods anyone).
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Thursday 30th October 2014 00:40 GMT Anonymous Coward
Re: Impressed
The naysayers do have some point - a few years back there was a Banksy hypegasm which gave the air that all of his utterances come inscribed on stones from Mt Sinai. Overly reverential handling does no favour to an artist, the lightest squib gets scrutinised for deep wisdom, like the mob following Brian of Nazareth.
But it seems likely that he'd agree with much of the criticism - his sort-of-documentary "Exit Through the Gift Shop" takes the piss out of the art business, including graffiti. And it's enthralling and funny to boot.
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Thursday 30th October 2014 10:35 GMT Psyx
Re: Impressed
"The naysayers do have some point - a few years back there was a Banksy hypegasm which gave the air that all of his utterances come inscribed on stones from Mt Sinai."
- And it would be fair to criticize him *if he'd have stepped forward in an ego-sating move and thereby made himself instantly, staggeringly wealthy*. But he hasn't, and still lives on the 'outside' of the art-world glitterati where the likes of Hurst and Miss Attention-seeker-with-a-tent abide.
So any criticism needs to be leveled at the art world and people who created the hypegasm. Slagging off the artist *who has nothing to do with it* is misplaced.
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Thursday 30th October 2014 12:47 GMT Alien8n
Re: Impressed
Please don't confuse real artists with the Sunday Broadsheet supplement darlings. It's sad to see that in almost every case real artists that can actually create stay overlooked and poor while Turner Prize winning idiots make millions from rubbish (often literally). There is more real art on the CD covers in a music store than there will ever be within a modern art museum. The great artists of the Louvre must be spinning in their graves when looking at the rubbish created by the likes of Hirst et al.
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Thursday 30th October 2014 13:13 GMT Psyx
Re: Impressed
Success in any creative field is way more about self-promotion than talent, in both my own experience and that of seeing some very talented writers/musicians/artists unable to get anywhere because they don't have the right contacts. Hell: the only time I've ever been paid for writing anything was when friends got me an 'in'.
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Thursday 30th October 2014 09:54 GMT Ralph B
Erm, How?
How did Banksy convince WIPO that he was actually Banksy when he was challenging the takedown by the imposter? Could this not be ANOTHER Banksy imposter challenging the Banksy imposter who was trying to takedown the domain of a Banksy imposter?
I'm not even sure that I am real any more.