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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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[-] temptest@hexbear.net 12 points 1 year ago

Banksy believing in intellectual property 🏴‍☠️

[-] spiderplant@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 13 points 1 year ago

Copyright infringement is the jaywalking of ideas

[-] some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago

That's a pretty great analogy.

[-] NotYourSocialWorker@feddit.nu 2 points 1 year ago

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.

[-] 7bicycles@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

Did he ever say anything else about it? You can get banksy prints and other stuff featuring his artwork everywhere and they never seemed much bothered about it, maybe he just dislikes Guess

[-] temptest@hexbear.net 2 points 1 year ago

I don't know, I was just making a joke

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