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So nice that Amazon was able to find someone to work for free rather than having to pay someone to do that art stuff!
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Street art, graffiti, being displayed without permission after it is placed on the side of a building without permission? Give me a break.
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It had to happen at some point.
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Don't bother to keep us updated. We don't care.
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This entire story is absurd.
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That slight taste of irony I'm getting is that the old ConWorks building is where the Communication Workers of America held one of the first organizing meeting for the stillborn union drive in Amazon's customer service department 10 years ago. Things were starting to take off when Amazon laid off most of the organizing workers.
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You paint it, you own the copyright. Period. Doesn't matter if it is signed or registered. Painted illegally? I dunno, but it seems these might have been painted with permission of the landlord. Even if it is painted illegally, I think the artist still owns the copyright. Whether it is displayed publicly or not is legally irrelevant. There are cases where books showing pictures of graffiti have been pulled by the publisher after complaint by the graffiti artists.

Here's from an NYT article on the topic:

Jane Ginsburg, a professor of intellectual property law at Columbia University, said that creative works are automatically protected regardless of where they are displayed. The extent of protection, she said, varied depending on whether a piece was registered with the federal copyright office at the time of the alleged infringement.

From http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/04/nyregi…
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I'm looking for a car to spray paint a quirky cartoon caracter with wacky teeth and zombie eyes onto so that the car legally becomes mine. Don't you dare park it in your own garage! I'M AN ARTIST, DAMNIT!!!

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