Banksy in copyright/IP grab shocka

[fingertrouble]

Banksy @ Bristol City Museum, originally uploaded by fingertrouble.

Going to post a proper blog post regards the Rock n Roll Library and the trip to Bristol but thought I'd post this first...

Because of Banksy's stupid notice at the end of the exhibition (see the end of this set) saying he owns the copyright and IP rights to all pictures, I am posting the Banksy images on Flickr as Creative Commons, use as you want - full CC, attribution cos as I may as well take credit for stuff I haven't created like Banksy does. :-P

Stick your 'permission' up your arse Banksy - you don't own the copyrights of the stuff you lift, so don't tell me you own the rights to my photos...count how many brands and copies/parodies in the Flickr set, I doubt the likes of McDonalds, Easyjet and Mr Whippy (or whoever owns that ice cream van brand) gave permission, nor the owners of the 'readymades' which as Jeff Koons found are still copyrighted. Hmm.

And what are you gonna do? Sue me? How? You can't sue someone anonymously...maybe he was being ironic but funnily enough this picture was half hidden by the exit, I don't think it is. Sell out.

It was however a great exhibition, despite the 4 hour wait and the above notice - but that's for another post.

Comments

[badpauly.livejournal.com]

I'd not be surprised if that was a museum-originated notice. From memory Banksy's work has always been free of copyright, explicitly mentioned in his books.

Will check.

[badpauly.livejournal.com]

Just checked.

He mentions his work is copyright to assert that he is the author (Wall & Peace), and that it can't be reproduced for commercial purposes (Banging your Head, Existencilism).

[fingertrouble.livejournal.com]

Yes but there's no statement of 'commercial' here - obv magazines and newspapers are but websites?

Banksy has galleries attached to him now, and prob managers etc. so not surprised about the copyright notice, but he's skating on thin ice doing the copyright grab when he doesn't own the rights to the stuff he does...if it's in an art gallery you're not exempt.

And anyway he ripped most of his stencil work off Blek Le Rat.