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The Moral Rights in a Banksy?

Posted on: September 14, 2015 by Alexander Herman

As reported far and wide, last Friday a High Court decision was rendered in a case involving a piece of Banksy street art called ‘Art Buff’, which had been stripped off a wall in Folkestone, England, and sent to the US for sale. The work had been added to the side of a building in 2014, in conjunction with a town […]

Damien Hirst wall painting sparks dispute

Posted on: July 16, 2014 by Alexander Herman

A dispute has recently arisen involving a work by famed spot-painter Damien Hirst. The series of multi-coloured spots had been painted directly on the wall of a home in Fulham, London in 1988. Hirst then issued the owners with a certificate of authenticity dated April 1989. The house was then sold (twice) and the current owners removed the spot […]