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Re:N.Y. landlord ordered to pay $6.7M for destroying graffiti by yostrovs on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @06:01PM (#16380360)
I believe in contracts and I doubt there ever was a contract. This seems like someone thought that these walls will be forever theirs, though it was just a matter of a lenient landlord not caring too much about what was going on.

And because the landlord wasn't a dick in the first place, but was a nice guy who let them use the walls he owned to display their art for free to a giant audience, he now owes them $6.5 million!! These people have probably never made $6.5 million between them.

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Re:N.Y. landlord ordered to pay $6.7M for destroying graffiti by victorNicollet on Wednesday February 14, 2018 @06:16PM (#16380470)
I'm not a native speaker so I'm not sure if it applies to the word "contract" that you are using, but in France a "contrat" exists as soon as there is a meeting of the minds. Writing it down and signing it makes it easier to prove to a judge, but it's not necessary.
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