cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/1977881

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Banksy isn’t happy with Guess’ latest collaboration.

The legendary anonymous graffiti artist had a directive for his followers on Friday, encouraging them—possibly tongue in cheek, possibly not—to visit the Regent Street Guess store in London and steal the brand’s new collection that features his artwork.

“Attention all shoplifters. Please go to Guess on Regents Street. They’ve helped themselves to my artwork without asking, how can it be wrong for you to do the same to their clothes?”

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Is it not copyright infringement?

Also I don’t believe in either but will happily use both to fuck over rich corpo pigs from commercialising my work without permission or compensation.

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Copyright infringement is the jaywalking of ideas

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That’s a pretty great analogy.

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No since Banksy doesn’t have any copyrights. Being anonymous has it downysides…

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/09/15/banksys-weakass-attempt-to-abuse-trademark-law-flops-following-bad-legal-advice/

So as far as I know he has neither copyright nor trademark to use. Not a fan of big companies either but Banksy is far away from impoverished.

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