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Most times endless regulations and laws just irk me. But there is the odd time it can actually work in our favor.
I painted a mural in California many years ago. We fell in love with the small town and the people there. It was absolute magic when we painted there.
The mural program became very successful, the town built a tourist business around the murals and it prospered.
Prosperity brought new businesses to town. One of those new businesses bought the old building I had painted my mural on and wants to tear it down to make way for a modern structure. In steps the law...
Apparently under California law it is illegal for anyone to destroy or paint over a mural without the artist's permission first.
The town has asked me to negotiate a deal with the new merchants, granting permission to destroy the old mural, conditional on me painting a new one to replace it on the new building. SWEET!
It looks like its time to plan a business trip to California later this year...
Breaking out the suntan lotion in Yarrow...
-grampa dan
-------------------- Dan Sawatzky Imagination Corporation Yarrow, British Columbia dan@imaginationcorporation.com http://www.imaginationcorporation.com
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We had the same thing with a mural painted in Downtown Milwaukee. When the new downtown needed to make a bigger interchange, the mural had to go. Milwaukee whales Difference of what the artist wants vs what the DOT needs.
Too cool! (Don't let Meyer know though...he'll take over the whole thing with brats & polka!-no cigars though...maybe he won't come!)
-------------------- Nikki Goral Image Advantage Signs 4050 Champeau Road New Franken, WI 54229 920-465-4500 "Finish every day and be done with it. Tomorrow is a new day."-Ralph Waldo Emerson Posts: 928 | From: New Franken, WI (East Green Bay) | Registered: Jun 2007
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Years ago, a major property management firm here decided all signs on all their industrial properties had to be on panels. I chafed at first under the restrictions and then thought: "Someone has to sell them the sign panels." I sold them hundreds over the years. The panels also made it easier to design the signs since I knew on any building what I was up against.
-------------------- David Harding A Sign of Excellence Carrollton, TX Posts: 5099 | From: Carrollton, TX, USA | Registered: Nov 1998
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quote:Apparently under California law it is illegal for anyone to destroy or paint over a mural without the artist's permission first.
That is neat indeed.Since it apparently is not the case everywhere, I hope you can hold on to this one and defend it. This sounds a little like copyright law. Is there a term and option to renew? What if the artist is dead? What if I buy a house with an exterior mural that I don't like?
-------------------- Bruce Williams Lexington KY Posts: 945 | From: Lexington, KY, USA | Registered: Mar 1999
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