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- From: tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan)
- Subject: Re: Great Bogg's Story
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.233509.11727@pegasus.com>
- Organization: Pegasus, Honolulu
- References: <BzopD9.MBz@sci.kun.nl>
- Distribution: misc.legal,alt.politics.economics
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 23:35:09 GMT
- Lines: 37
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- hansm@cs.kun.nl (Hans Mulder) writes:
- >tleylan@pegasus.com (Tom Leylan) writes:
-
- >> Is It Counterfeit Money or Art ? (Or Can It Be Both?)
-
- >If Mr. Boggs ever to imitate Dutch banknotes, he'll find himself sued
- >for copyright infringement.
-
- >>"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.
-
- If the authorities were trying to convict him on copyright charges don't
- you think they would have mentioned it when they arrested him ?
-
- The charge was "forgery" and it seems a 5 year old could tell the
- difference... hmmm your message looks peculiarly like our U.S. $10
- bills (to the untrained eye).
-
- >>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.
-
- Actually he is bartering and that is legal.
-
- tom
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