Banksy Copyright© & Trademark™

[JW]

These guys are fucking zero talent, money grubbing leeches. Shame on them.

www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/banksy-is-trying-to-backdoor-copyright-with-trademark-lawyer-says-20210707-p587k2.html

Banksy’s London-based company Pest Control Office Ltd applied for trademarks on the two images in July 2019, and they were accepted at the end of April 2021. However, Full Colour Black lodged its opposition in late June just before the trademarks could be registered.

The fight will now be arbitrated by IP Australia, which oversees Australian trademarks, and could be appealed to the Federal Court.

Full Colour Black considers Australia a “good potential market” for its products, he said, so they wanted to protect themselves legally from a potential Banksy trademark.

[u%hdjfka c]

Jul 7, 2021 21:50:49 GMT 1 JW said:

These guys are fucking zero talent, money grubbing leeches. Shame on them.

www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/banksy-is-trying-to-backdoor-copyright-with-trademark-lawyer-says-20210707-p587k2.html

Banksy’s London-based company Pest Control Office Ltd applied for trademarks on the two images in July 2019, and they were accepted at the end of April 2021. However, Full Colour Black lodged its opposition in late June just before the trademarks could be registered.

The fight will now be arbitrated by IP Australia, which oversees Australian trademarks, and could be appealed to the Federal Court.

Full Colour Black considers Australia a “good potential market” for its products, he said, so they wanted to protect themselves legally from a potential Banksy trademark.

Why do you give a shit?
They haven't broken any laws or defaced anyone's property.
Unlike your hero Banksy.

[Coach]

Jul 7, 2021 21:56:13 GMT 1 u%hdjfka c said:

Jul 7, 2021 21:50:49 GMT 1 JW said:

These guys are fucking zero talent, money grubbing leeches. Shame on them.

www.smh.com.au/culture/art-and-design/banksy-is-trying-to-backdoor-copyright-with-trademark-lawyer-says-20210707-p587k2.html

Banksy’s London-based company Pest Control Office Ltd applied for trademarks on the two images in July 2019, and they were accepted at the end of April 2021. However, Full Colour Black lodged its opposition in late June just before the trademarks could be registered.

The fight will now be arbitrated by IP Australia, which oversees Australian trademarks, and could be appealed to the Federal Court.

Full Colour Black considers Australia a “good potential market” for its products, he said, so they wanted to protect themselves legally from a potential Banksy trademark.

Why do you give a shit?
They haven't broken any laws or defaced anyone's property.
Unlike your hero Banksy.

If defacing things is the subject of criticism on a forum born out of graffiti, that’s a crying shame.

[Fuzzyduck121]

I’m guessing all bets are off since the court case didn’t go so well

I don’t follow CJ that closely but I will be interested to see how this unfolds

quite fancy an NBG without the telly print myself 

cjhendrystudio.com

[Lunch Special]

Lame af it’s a wack play sad artists don’t create and can only imitate nowadays.

[Daniel Silk]

"Banksy Wins a EU Trademark Case and Will Be Allowed to Remain Anonymous. At issue was Banksy's attempts to trademark a graffiti image of an ape."

observer.com/2022/11/banksy-wins-a-eu-trademark-case-and-will-be-allowed-to-remain-anonymous/

[Daniel Silk]

Have any other artists had this many problems with Trademark and Copyright of their art?
I still feel the best way to stamp out the fakes is to release enough official work at affordable prices that it soaks up all the demand, leaving it unnecessary for anyone to buy fakes.

[eyectopus]

Nov 20, 2022 0:35:05 GMT 1 Daniel Silk said:

Have any other artists had this many problems with Trademark and Copyright of their art?
I still feel the best way to stamp out the fakes is to release enough official work at affordable prices that it soaks up all the demand, leaving it unnecessary for anyone to buy fakes.

There was issues with Robert Indiana's LOVE and other sculptures. A 3rd party trying to profit from his work.


www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-22/the-battle-over-robert-indiana-s-love

[TAXED]

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12586143/Will-Banksy-finally-unmasked.html

[artdelight]

no it won't be.

[strawberry]

Seen some blank greeting cards go up for sale, look cute but not sure, could be an easy dupe. Thought I would ask for advice here before talking to the seller.

[kjg]

Nov 19, 2023 11:17:56 GMT 1 strawberry said:

Seen some blank greeting cards go up for sale, look cute but not sure, could be an easy dupe. Thought I would ask for advice here before talking to the seller.

These are really bad fakes. They didn't even bother to portray Girl with Balloon properly.