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The Sandwich and the Flower: What the Washington Post Missed—and Why It Matters
By Marivel Guzman — Akashma News August 21, 2025 A visual dialogue of resistance: Banksy’s original “Flower Thrower” (2005, Bethlehem, West Bank) mirrored with the “Sandwich Guy” parody mural in Washington, D.C.’s Adams Morgan neighborhood. The collage highlights the erased Palestinian context behind the iconic stencil and its American reinterpretation. Left mural: Banksy – Love Is In The Air…
Love is in the air ( flower thrower) - Banksy 2013 serigrafia su carta
“I più grandi crimini del mondo non sono commessi da persone che infrangono le regole ma da persone che seguono le regole “Banksy
El Lanzador de flores.
El Lanzador de flores.
El enigmático artista británico Banksy es uno de los genios del arte moderno del siglo XXI, como lo demuestran sus piezas de arte mural de corte urbano. Una de las imágenes más aclamadas de su autoría es esta obra ubicada en Jerusalén, que retrata a un protestaste que sostiene un ramo de flores que está dispuesto a lanzar. Flower thrower. Banksy (Robin Gunningham). Street art. Banksy es el…
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How Banksy's glib response to a trademark challenge backfired and lost him a two-year legal battle.
Britain’s most famous – and enigmatic – graffiti artist Banksy once proclaimed that “copyright is for losers”. Now, having lost a two-year legal fight over the trademarking of one of his iconic artworks, that claim has come back to haunt him.
On September 16, the EU Trademark Office invalidated a trademark registered by Pest Control, the official body which authenticates Banksy’s art. The trademark incorporated Banksy’s iconic mural Flower Thrower, originally painted in the Palestinian town of Bethlehem.
Illegal graffiti
The EU trademark office also noted that illegal graffiti cannot be protected by copyright because it is produced through the commission of a criminal act. It added that as graffiti is normally placed in public places for all to view and photograph, no copyright can be claimed.
But these statements are not accurate. The process of creating an artwork, whether legal or illegal, is not conclusive when it comes to determining whether copyright comes into existence.
For example, if I steal a pencil and create a wonderful drawing, why should I be denied copyright and be forced to tolerate someone else cashing in on my work? It would be unfair. The same could be said of illegal street art. Also, the fact that graffiti is placed in public locations does not assume that artists waive or are deprived of the rights copyright law offers them. That is simply mistaken.
Apart from this point, the decision is well-reasoned and fair. If Banksy wants to own, keep and enforce registered trademarks, he needs to act in good faith, and start using them seriously by regularly selling merchandise, as all entrepreneurs do.
Banksy arrives to Oporto - Alfândega
Banksy arrives to Oporto – Alfândega
The exhibition “Banksy, Dismaland and Others” arrives to Oporto on the 19th January 2019 (next Saturday). This exhibit can be visited in Alfândega do Porto between the 19th January and the 31st March 2019.
The exhibition includes large pictures from the Dismaland project (2015), as well as pictures from “Walled Off Hotel” (2017) and “Flower Thrower” (2005). There will also be some pictures…
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Lego Banksy Flower Thrower
Image by Eddy Plu