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- From: hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder)
- Subject: Re: Great Bogg's Story
- Message-ID: <BzopD9.MBz@sci.kun.nl>
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- Organization: University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
- References: <1992Dec16.043712.326@pegasus.com>
- Distribution: misc.legal,alt.politics.economics
- Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1992 23:31:56 GMT
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- In <1992Dec16.043712.326@pegasus.com> tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
-
- > Is It Counterfeit Money or Art ? (Or Can It Be Both?)
-
- >Courts in Britain and Australia agree with the artist J.S.G. Boggs,
- >who has been drawing likenesses of paper money for the last eight
- >years, that his drawings are just that: art.
-
- If Mr. Boggs ever to imitate Dutch banknotes, he'll find himself sued
- for copyright infringement.
-
- [stuff deleted]
- >"They said I was a counterfeiter, " Mr. Boggs said. "They don't
- >understand the difference between art and crime."
-
- "It's art" is not a defense against copyright infringement.
-
- >"I've consciously made my bills different enough that you can't fool
- >somebody with them," Mr. Boggs said.
-
- Not a defense either.
-
- >Mr. Boggs does not sell his drawings. Instead, he "spends" them in
- >a kind of performance that he describes as critical to his work.
- >In this performance, he explains to merchants that he is an artist
- >and wants to exchange his art for goods or services.
-
- Whatever he calls it, he's undermining the Central Bank's sales of
- coloured pieces of paper.
-
- The Bank sells really nice pieces of paper; I especially like their
- "impressions of a light house" in purple, aka the 250 guilder note.
-
- --
- Hans Mulder hansm@cs.kun.nl
-