Comments on: NYC: 5Pointz building owner must pay graffiti artists https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/02/nyc-5pointz-building-owner-must-pay-graffiti-artists/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:14:58 +0000 hourly 1 By: Hugo S. Cunningham https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/02/nyc-5pointz-building-owner-must-pay-graffiti-artists/comment-page-1/#comment-348034 Wed, 21 Feb 2018 17:14:58 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=68990#comment-348034 The $6.7 million apparently was an acceptable cost of doing business for a $200 million project, to avert the risk that the artists could sue and get their work declared an unchangeable monument. I would have preferred that the building owner wait a few months (when as the court pointed out he lacked the permits anyways), giving the artists a few weeks or months to relocate their work. But did the developer have a rational fear that the graffiti could delay his project in court for expensive months or even years?

]]> By: Douglas2 https://www.overlawyered.com/2018/02/nyc-5pointz-building-owner-must-pay-graffiti-artists/comment-page-1/#comment-348022 Tue, 20 Feb 2018 14:56:10 +0000 https://www.overlawyered.com/?p=68990#comment-348022 Your understated just-the-facts-ma’am report, with link to “more on VARA”, does far more justice to the controversy than most reporting I’ve seen.

My perception is that those who were itching to enshrine “moral rights” of artists into US law had very little concept of the perverse incentives they were setting up.

VARA “worked out well” for the artists in this case, but for many of them the foreseeable consequence of this award’s notoriety will spell the end of their muraling career.

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