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Re:NY lawsuit asks: Is graffiti art protected under federal ... by mannykannot on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @10:03AM (#15960656)
You are repeatedly quoting the law to avoid discussing whether there are any ethical issues here, but if this were purely a matter of the law, it would be uninteresting.
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Re:NY lawsuit asks: Is graffiti art protected under federal ... by chimeracoder on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @10:14AM (#15960722)
> You are repeatedly quoting the law to avoid discussing whether there are any ethical issues here

That's a pretty great distance to move the goalposts. The original comment questions legal matters (whether the owner acted in bad faith, whether the law was broken, and which side the judge [should] decide to be correct). Hence why we're discussing the legal standards.

If you want to discuss ethical issues, I'd suggest a new comment thread, because that hasn't come up at all in this one.

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Re:NY lawsuit asks: Is graffiti art protected under federal ... by mannykannot on Tuesday December 19, 2017 @10:47AM (#15960953)
You might have taken a look before you wrote that, as the original post in this thread is pretty clearly about the ethical issues beyond the narrow facts of the law.
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