{"id":3588,"date":"2010-02-06T13:11:56","date_gmt":"2010-02-06T21:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=3588"},"modified":"2010-02-06T13:11:56","modified_gmt":"2010-02-06T21:11:56","slug":"fake-artist-sues-photographer-for-taking-pics-of-public-sidewalk-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/02\/06\/fake-artist-sues-photographer-for-taking-pics-of-public-sidewalk-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Artist Sues Photographer for Taking Pics of Public Sidewalk Art"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\" \/><param name=\"AllowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/v\/?i=83618997\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"500\" height=\"300\" src=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/v\/?i=83618997\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" wmode=\"transparent\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\"><\/embed><\/object><\/div>\n<p>Some abject fool of an artist named <em>Jack Mackie<\/em> made a deal with the city of Seattle to embed an artwork called <em>Dancers&#8217; Series: Steps<\/em> into a sidewalk back in 1979.\u00a0 Then a photographer named <a href=\"http:\/\/hipple-ldf.blogspot.com\/\"><em>Mike Hipple<\/em><\/a> went and did a logical thing; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.komonews.com\/news\/local\/83618997.html\">he took a photograph of a public sidewalk with the artwork in it<\/a>.\u00a0 Now the nitwit fraudulent artist is <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.seattlepi.com\/thebigblog\/archives\/193502.asp\">suing him for using his artwork<\/a> in a photograph!\u00a0 It&#8217;s jackasses like this Mackie dude that need to be put out of business.\u00a0 By this jerk&#8217;s reasoning I would have to pay royalties to all of the architects responsible for the design of every single building in the Manhattan skyline if I took a photograph of New York.\u00a0 Ridiculous!\u00a0 This fool is an insult to artists and intellectual property courts all over the country.<\/p>\n<p>The only good thing about this Jack Mackie art is that people get to step on it.<\/p>\n<p>I have an idea for a great photograph.\u00a0 Someone goes up to Seattle with a jackhammer for a 4:00 am dig-and-run operation then takes a photograph of the hole that&#8217;s left and its caption reads,<em> &#8216;Please Fill This Hole.&#8217;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>And this would be something to do to every public artwork attached to a moronic lawsuit like Mr. Mackie&#8217;s.  Every time one of these lawsuits is filed, destroy the artwork.  Eventually, corporate midgets like Jack Mackie will go away.<\/p>\n<p>And another thing, Mr. Mackie, I recognize the concrete incorporated in your artwork on the sidewalk.\u00a0 It&#8217;s extremely distinctive.\u00a0 My uncle owns the mill that made that concrete and he will expect to be compensated for the use of his concrete in your public artwork.\u00a0 You owe him $600,000.\u00a0 He&#8217;s coming to collect.\u00a0 His name is Lou.\u00a0 Smile when you open the door.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some abject fool of an artist named Jack Mackie made a deal with the city of Seattle to embed an artwork called Dancers&#8217; Series: Steps into a sidewalk back in 1979.\u00a0 Then a photographer named Mike Hipple went and did a logical thing; he took a photograph of a public sidewalk with the artwork in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[287,163,235],"tags":[2510,929,2507,926],"class_list":["post-3588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-opinion","category-photography","tag-art","tag-intellectual-property","tag-photography","tag-seattle"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3588"}],"version-history":[{"count":19,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3607,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3588\/revisions\/3607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}